Feven's Fight: Police Missteps in Valdo Calocane Case

0:00On this February 26th, this episode is brought to you by NordVPN, fast, reliable online privacy. Links in the episode description. Here's what's shaping the UK right now. A nursing student named Feven escaped a dangerous encounter with Valdo Callican by jumping 12 feet from her apartment window and nodding hand back in. May 2020, she broke her back in the fall and still deals with cost and pain nearly six years later. Police told her Callican could not face charges because of its schizophrenia, so they sent him to a psychiatric hospital instead. Just an hour earlier that same day, Callican had tried breaking into another student's flat in the same building, convinced his mother was inside. Officers handling Feven's case missed this connection entirely. One investigator even skipped checking the police log over data protection worries and body camera footage from the first incident got lost. Feven was furious that Callican walked free without charges, especially after police noted he was seeing demons and devils. At 22 years old, she felt the hospital's stay was not enough justice for her lifelong injuries.

1:05The officer who visited her called her brave, but never told her she could challenge their decision. During the public inquiry, police officers admitted the two break-ins should have been linked, and that the first case did not give proper attention, inspectors expressed concern over reluctance to dig deeper into Callican's behavior that day. This testimony sheds light on early police missteps with Callican, who went on to kill two 19-year-old students and a 65-year-old. Caretaker in knife attacks three years later, the inquiry presses on to uncover more about those critical failures.