Webber: Inquiry Witnesses Arrogant, Evasive

0:00On April 5th, Emma Weber, mom of 19-year-old Barney Weber, one of three victims in the June 2023 Nottingham stavings, is calling out the inquiry, witnesses for their arrogance and evasion. Her son was killed by Valdo Calokane, a paranoid schizophrenic with a violent past, during a deadly rampage that also claimed student Grace O'Malley, Kumar and caretaker, Ian Coats. The first six weeks of the probe exposed major failures across police, medics and prosecutors. Coats missed that Calokane was one for assault when they checked on him a month earlier at a warehouse fight. Doctors let him go, factoring in stats about young black males in detention. Weber slams senior figures like police leaders and a top psychiatrist for doubling down on bad calls, saying they do it all again today. Families feel sidelined, especially over prosecutors accepting manslaughter pleas instead of pushing murder charges. Meanwhile, medical pros overlooked his four prior sectionings, freeing him to strike.

1:01The inquiry's litany of misses has left everyone stunned at the scale of ineptitude. The weathers have shown up every day, reliving the trauma but determined to push through till summer, when real changes might finally stick.