Anger mixes with grief after man’s conviction over Nottingham horror

Valdo Calocane, who killed three people and seriously injured three others, was well known to mental health services

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It was described as “one of the darkest days in the city’s history”. Three people stabbed to death on the street, and three more seriously injured after being mowed down by a van, in a seemingly random rampage of destruction that left Nottingham, and the country, reeling.

Thousands of people attended vigils in the days after the attacks, many standing in silence with tears in their eyes as the families of the victims described their devastation at losing their loved ones in such a sudden, brutal way.