Hundreds of mental health related killings have been examined and will be presented as part of the Nottingham Inquiry into paranoid schizophrenic Valdo Calocane’s attacks.

The inquiry will on Thursday, May 28, share information on more than 500 separate mental health attacks between 2003 and 2023 in a bid to identify similarities with the three that horrified Nottingham and the world on June 13, 2023.

The judge-led inquiry, which started in February and is being chaired by Her Honour Deborah Taylor, is looking into how failings by mental health services, police, and others contributed to Calocane killing Grace O’Malley-Kumar, Barnaby Webber and Ian Coates, before attempting to kill Wayne Birkett, Sharon Miller and Marcin Gawronski nearly three years ago.

At the start of the months-long evidence stage that is now coming to an end Rachel Langdale KC, counsel for the inquiry, said there had been 64 questionnaire responses from people impacted by killings carried out by people with mental illnesses.

Ms Langdale said that independent reports relating to these attacks had been obtained and analysed where available, with the inquiry team also gathering relevant reports from 1994 onwards.

The inquiry is expected to outline the recurring patterns, themes and failures in the mental health related homicides, aiming to help inform the chair’s future recommendations.

“The analysis appears to show that the same recommendations are made time and again, suggesting a worrying trend of failing to learn from the horror and personal tragedies that each of these cases represents,” Ms Langdale previously told the inquiry.

Thursday’s hearing will also hear evidence from Julian Hendy, the founder of charity Hundred Families which investigates mental health-related homicides and supports the families of victims – such as those impacted by Calocane’s killings.

He founded the charity, named after the more than 100 people a year he estimates are killed by someone with a mental illness, after his father was murdered in Bristol in 2007 by a psychotic man with a documented history of serious mental illness, drug abuse and violence.

Mr Hendy is expected to provide insight into the concerns he and the families he works with have, including the transparency of NHS investigations and a lack of clinical focus on public protection.

In his evidence, which is expected after the questionnaire results, he is expected to argue family voices often get lost in various clinical and justice processes.

We will be bringing you live updates from Thursday’s hearing. You can follow along below.