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<\/p>\nThe health care worker said he and his colleagues had failed<\/p>\n
16:00, 30 Apr 2026Updated 16:02, 30 Apr 2026<\/p>\n
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Gary Carter, who was put in charge of paranoid schizophrenic Calocane’s care from April 2022 to his calamitous discharge by Nottinghamshire Healthcare trust(Image: The Nottingham Inquiry)<\/p>\n
Nottingham triple killer Valdo Calocane “lied” to and “deceived” medical staff trying to treat him, a nurse has told the Nottingham Inquiry.<\/p>\n
Gary Carter, who was put in charge of paranoid schizophrenic<\/a> Calocane’s care from April 2022 to his disastrous discharge by Nottinghamshire Healthcare trust<\/a> in September that year, candidly admitted on Thursday, April 30, that the violent patient had deceived him and his former colleagues.<\/p>\n The judge-led inquiry, which started in February and is being chaired by Her Honour Deborah Taylor, is looking into how failings by the NHS<\/a> trust, police<\/a>, and others led to Calocane killing Grace O’Malley-Kumar, Barnaby Webber and Ian Coates, before attempting to kill Wayne Birkett, Sharon Miller and Marcin Gawronski on June 13, 2023.<\/p>\n During Mr Carter’s evidence to the inquiry, it was revealed that he had resigned from his position at Nottinghamshire Healthcare’s Early Intervention in Psychosis (EIP) service in April 2025 after facing disciplinary proceedings over Calocane’s care.<\/p>\n Rachel Langdale KC, counsel for the inquiry, asked the former Nottinghamshire Healthcare employee what he thought went wrong in Calocane’s case.<\/p>\n \u201cMost of what I know about [Calocane], I would say 95 per cent I\u2019ve learnt in the last\u2026 well since the sad tragedy in June 2023.<\/p>\n “What went wrong? Basically I think this man in a nutshell, he lied, he deceived, he outmanoeuvred the medical staff in particular, both on the ward, in the community. He wasn\u2019t honest.<\/p>\n \u201cI felt that I did as much as I could possibly do with him, really. I met him twice as his CCO [care coordinator]. Each time for less than five minutes.\u201d<\/p>\n He said that due to Calocane’s risk his colleagues felt he could only be dealt with at the Stonebridge Centre, where the team were based.<\/p>\n \u201cI personally really thought this was unacceptable because I wasn’t willing to kind of just sit by and wait for him to arrive, and hope and pray for the best, I felt as though we had to go out and find this man but there was problems around his moving from one address to another.”<\/p>\n Calocane’s mental healthcare had been coordinated by nurse Claudia Birtles from June 2020 to April 2022, but Mr Carter took over on April 28 and had previously visited the eventual killer.<\/p>\n