Nottingham attacks: man admits killing three but denies murder

Valdo Calocane, also known as Adam Mendes, admits killing Grace O’Malley-Kumar, Barnaby Webber and Ian Coates in June

A man has pleaded not guilty to the murder of three people who were killed in a spate of attacks in Nottingham in June, but has admitted manslaughter, as well as the attempted murder of three other individuals.

Grace O’Malley-Kumar and Barnaby Webber, both 19-year-old students at the University of Nottingham, along with 65-year-old caretaker Ian Coates, were stabbed in the street and killed in the early hours of 13 June.