09 April 2024 , 08:26
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The brother of a teenager murdered in the Nottingham stabbings shows his bedroom has been left untouched in heartbreaking new footage.
Barnaby Webber was stabbed to death alongside friend Grace O’Malley-Kumar last June as the two 19-year-olds made their way home from a night out. The attacker, paranoid schizophrenic Valdo Calocane, also went on to kill school caretaker Ian Coates. Calocane was sentenced to an indefinite hospital order in January this year. Now, Barnaby's family have recalled the horrifying moment the family discovered what had happened to him - and shared that his room has been left exactly the same as the day he was killed.
Speaking on a new BBC documentary, The Big Cases: The Nottingham Attacks, dad David Webber and mum Emma revealed that he had first been alerted by news reports of a major incident in the Ilkeston Road area of the city - and began to fear the worst when phone tracking software showed him that his son had been in the same area.
A new documentary revealed how Barnaby Webber's bedroom has been kept the same since he died in the Nottingham stabbings (BBC)Mrs Webber repeatedly tried to ring her son's phone - and suddenly saw that its location had changed to the police station. Shortly afterwards the dad received a dreaded phonecall from the police, who told the couple that Barney's driving licence had been found on him. "I remember I got out the car and I screamed. It was just like everything went dark around us", Mrs Webber said.
His brother Charlie Webber meanwhile shared how his brother's death had been so painful for his family that his bedroom had been barely entered since he died. Guiding the camera crew around the room, he said: "It's quite weird coming in here because no one really comes in here. Nothing's been changed in here, I think a lot of the stuff here no necessarily brings back memories but means a lot."
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The documentary also heard from the devastated family of Grace O’Malley-Kumar, who said their daughter's friend had called them on the morning of the accident to warn them to expect the worst. Mum Sinead O'Malley-Kumar said: "Her friend from university phoned me and said that Barney was dead and that Grace was with Barney, they left together and we knew then."
Barnaby's brother Charlie Webber guided a camera crew around his brother's old bedroom (BBC)Heartbreaking footage showed Grace and Barnaby just minutes from home but moments away from their violent deaths. In the video, they appear not to have a care in the world, strolling down Ilkeston Road joking and giggling with one another. They seem to play around as they pass a car sales compound called Carlot.
At 4am, locals told of hearing the students' "blood-curdling screams" as the pair were stabbed to death outside. A nearby resident recalled seeing a man dressed all in black "grappling with some people". They said: "She was screaming 'Help!' I just wish I'd shouted something out of the window to unnerve the assailant.
Ian Coates, Barnaby Webber and Grace O'Malley-Kumar died in the attacks on June 13 2023 (PA)"I saw him stab the lad first and then the woman. It was repeated stabbing - four or five times. The lad collapsed in the middle of the road. The girl stumbled towards a house and didn't move. The next minute she had disappeared down the side of a house, and that's where they found her."
A couple who live nearby reportedly said their home security camera captured the horrific incident and described how Grace 'tried to save' him. She said the attacker struck from behind: "He attacked the boy first - the girl had an opportunity to run away. But she didn't, she tried to get the man off her friend. She tried to save the boy."