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Asha Patel and

Isaac Ashe, East Midlands

BBC

Elias Calocane, the brother of Nottingham attacks killer Valdo Calocane, told the Nottingham Inquiry he believed his brother would take is own life

The brother of the Nottingham attacks killer has said he feared Valdo Calocane was going to take his own life, a public inquiry has heard.

Calocane, who was diagnosed with paranoid schizophrenia in 2020, stabbed to death Barnaby Webber, Grace O'Malley-Kumar and Ian Coates in Nottingham on 13 June 2023.

His younger brother Elias Calocane had received a number of messages from Calocane, expressing thoughts of violence and "red rum" - a reference to murder - in 2020, before Calocane's first admission to hospital.

On Wednesday, Elias told the Nottingham Inquiry he believed his brother's messages were about harming himself, and said he felt "powerless" when it came to his brother's mental health.

The inquiry heard Calocane - who also seriously injured three others in the attacks across the city -…