Nottingham rampage victim’s brother gives heartbreaking tour of untouched bedroom including cricket bat he’ll never use

THE brother of Nottingham rampage victim Barnaby Webber has given a heartbreaking tour of his untouched bedroom.

Charlie Webber says he still struggles to walk into the room nine months after his older sibling was stabbed to death alongside two others by evil Valdo Calocane.

Poignant footage from BBC documentary The Big Cases: The Nottingham Attacks shows Barnaby’s bedroom frozen in time.

The 19-year-old’s sporting achievements are proudly displayed – including a picture of him competing in the Rosslyn Park National Schools Sevens rugby tournament.

A shirt from a memorial Bishops Hull Cricket Club game following Barnaby’s death can also be seen.

Tragically, Charlie points out a cricket bat that he says Barnaby “obviously… never got to use”.

Brave Charlie says: “Yeah, this is Barney’s room. It’s quite weird coming in here because no-one really comes in here.

“Obviously, nothing’s been changed in here, I think a lot of the stuff here… not necessarily brings back memories, but means a lot.”

Barnaby was walking home from a night out with friend , also 19, when they were ambushed by Calocane.

The paranoid schizophrenic then attacked caretaker Ian Coates, 65, before stealing his van and ploughing into pedestrians.

The documentary reveals how the victims’ families were told about the horror last summer.

Barnaby’s mum Emma said she was left “screaming” at the side of the road when she learned her son had been stabbed to death.

She added: “They said the word ‘deceased’ and Barney’s driving licence was on him. 

“And I remember I got out the car and I screamed. It was just like everything went dark around us.”

Grace’s parents were told by her university pals that Barnaby had died and their daughter was with him at the time.

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.”

While Ian’s son, James Coates, added: “It felt like a weight had just dropped from the sky and gone straight through my body.

“I had to hold myself onto a lamppost to keep myself up because the whole world around me just disappeared.”

Nottingham Crown Court heard Calocane had been detained in hospital four times before the killings in June 2023 and had a warrant out for his arrest at the time.

Prosecutors ruled he could not be held fully responsible for his actions because of his paranoid schizophrenia.

This meant they accepted his manslaughter by diminished responsibility plea rather than pressing for a murder conviction.

Calocane was handed an indefinite hospital order by a judge.

The Attorney General has now referred his sentence to the Court of Appeal after finding it “unduly lenient”.

• The Big Cases: The Nottingham Attacks is available on BBC iPlayer