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Laura Hammond
BBC News, Nottingham
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The victims' families spoke in London after the release of a major review into the NHS on Wednesday
The families of the victims of the Nottingham attacks have called for those involved in the failings of Valdo Calocane's care to be named individually.
Barnaby Webber and Grace O'Malley-Kumar, both 19, and Ian Coates, 65, were stabbed to death by Calocane, who has paranoid schizophrenia, on 13 June 2023.
A independent review into his NHS treatment and care, published on Wednesday, said it showed the "system got it wrong" and identified a catalogue of errors.
At a press conference in London, the victims' families called for greater accountability for those involved.
The families say they will "not stop until we get justice"
The review, by Theemis Consulting, looked into the treatment given to Calocane by Nottinghamshire Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust before the killings, as well as the interactions the NHS had with other agencies involved in his care.
The report found a number of failings, including his risk not being "fully understood, managed, documented or communicated", and identified missed opportunities to take more assertive action towards Calocane's care.
NHS England said it was "clear the system got it wrong" and apologised to the victims' families "on behalf of the NHS and the organisations involved".
Similarly, Ifti Majid, chief executive of Nottinghamshire Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust, apologised and said it would accept the report "in its entirety".
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Neil Hudgell, solicitor for the families, and Emma Webber called for greater accountability
But Emma Webber, mother of Barnaby Webber, said: "Names must be named."
She added the professional implications of being named were no comparison to the loss of a family member.
Dr Sanjoy Kumar, the father of Grace O'Malley-Kumar, said he would be writing to Health Secretary Wes Streeting to order the mental health trust to hold individual clinicians "responsible".
"We demand accountability," he added.
Since the publication of the report, which Mrs Webber described as a "horror show", the government repeated its commitment to an inquiry into the attacks, with work ongoing to establish its scope.
But Neil Hudgell, solicitor for the families, said: "We want it to have teeth, and be judge-led."
Mrs Webber called on the government to make the inquiry statutory, and pleaded for ministers to "make this trauma stop, and make our fight stop now".
She added: "I do think it's time now that we get the opportunity to meet with the prime minister."
