In a violent WhatsApp exchange, police claimed that the victims of the attacks in Nottingham last year had been “properly butchered.”
On June 13, 2023, paranoid schizophrenia sufferer and former Nottingham student Valdo Calocane fatally murdered Grace O’Malley-Kumar, Barnaby Webber, and Ian Coates in the street.
Following his arrival at the site of the attack on University of Nottingham students Grace and Barney, a police officer wrote to his colleagues in a group chat about how the cops had “tried to hold their inners in,” as Sky News reports.
“After two students on Ilkeston Road were brutally murdered, four section [officers] showed up and attempted to keep their mouths shut,” he uttered.
“After that, the suspects fled and attacked a man on Magdala Road in a car, stabbing him to death with a knife.”
The message was then shared with his wife and two friends by another officer in the chat room after being forwarded out of the group chat.
The WhatsApp chats’ contents were discovered by the relatives of the three victims in February of this year, but they were too upset to release the “disgusting” texts to the public until now.
Grace’s father, Dr. Sanjay Kumar, questioned: “Would anyone with a child, a mother, a relative use words like that?”
Why have Nottinghamshire police failed to remember that these are our cherished and cherished children that they are speaking of? Every time the message repeats in my head, tears well up in my head.
For me, the message is just as savage as the deed.
While the officer who transmitted the message to those outside the force was found guilty of gross misconduct, the officer who composed the message did not face a misconduct hearing and instead received “management intervention.”
Prior to this, Deputy Chief Constable Steve Cooper told Sky News that the police responded to the WhatsApp message “immediately”.
“Some of the words were crude and disgusting,” he declared. There was just one message, and no pictures were taken or distributed.
This comes after it was discovered that a Nottinghamshire Special Constable had seen bodycam footage of the victims of the Nottingham attacks receiving medical attention on the street. He was sacked and prohibited from ever serving as a police officer again.
