Using this platform to share updates, POV and raise awareness of our fight for justice for our beloved Barney and we head into and beyond our Statutory Public Inquiry. Opinions of all welcome, but be respectful please. Feel free to share any of my posts. #BW53 💚💛

Barnaby Philip John Webber 11/01/2004-13/06/2023 💔 If you can, share these images of the beautiful soul stolen from us by the worst of humanity. Let his face today burn bright. Barney, I promise you there will be accountability 💛💚 For You. For Grace. For Ian.

Tomorrow marks the 3rd anniversary of losing him. It’s unbearable and still so raw. In an effort to try and think of his legacy it feels appropriate to share details of the major fundraiser for his foundation. More details of this special evening plus news of very ‘special guests’ to follow. We would love to see anyone and everyone who wants to join us. Many who follow me here are not in or near Somerset, and some may not be interested in this aspect of my family; but for anyone who does fancy a trip to the Westcountry; you are most welcome. 💚💛 Tables of 10 can be booked via email: sarah@kfarchitects.co.uk

dailymail.co.uk/news/article… Am not disappointed at all that the @DailyMail picked this up. It needed to be said, and reported.

Will be ‘in region’ with @bbcpointswest live at 6.30pm today. Sharing a few thoughts on the Inquiry, but also sharing a little bit about Barney’s Foundation and his legacy. 💚💛 Ps. Not sure what X did to my photo but I quite like it 😉

Really @BBCNottingham ? Perhaps dig a little deeper. Perhaps question this father’s ‘hopes’ a little deeper. Perhaps question why this key witness would not appear to give evidence and answer key omissions. So disappointed. Barney Grace and Ian deserve better. So do the people of Nottingham. @PhilCoates9 @susanco75931454 @coatesaholic @DarrenCoattk @CoatesMania @drsanjoykumar

Valdo Calocane pleaded guilty to manslaughter. Three counts. On the grounds of diminished responsibility. He was sentenced to an indefinite hospital order. Four independent psychiatrists examined him. All four concluded that diminished responsibility applied — that his paranoid schizophrenia substantially impaired his ability to form rational judgement. The judge accepted this. The CPS accepted this. The court accepted this. The families have never accepted this. And today, with the oral hearings of the statutory public inquiry concluded, Emma Webber stood up and demanded that the government address “the undoubted miscarriage of justice” — now, before the inquiry reports next spring, because action does not require a report to be justified. She is raising something the British establishment will not discuss honestly. The diminished responsibility defence did not come from nowhere. It was the product of a mental health system that diagnosed Calocane, sectioned him four times, was warned he might kill someone — and then lost him. It was the product of a police force that had a warrant for his arrest and failed to execute it for nine months. It was the product of a CPS that received expert evidence and accepted a plea that spared everyone — the NHS, the police, the courts — the full exposure of a murder trial. A murder trial would have required the full, public ventilation of every institutional failure. Every missed warning. Every ignored section. Every month the warrant sat unexecuted. Every decision that left a dangerous, diagnosed, violent man free to walk the streets of Nottingham. Manslaughter spared them that. And Barnaby Webber’s family must live with the outcome. Emma Webber has asked for a meeting with the Prime Minister, Attorney General, Home Secretary, Health Secretary and justice minister. The government has no legitimate basis to refuse. The inquiry has confirmed catastrophic failure. The sentence has never satisfied the most basic test of justice. And the families have waited three years. Enough.

I have a huge problem with this. (feel free to share)…… Calocane senior’s vague and watered down written evidence is denying us of answers we have the right to hear. He was given permission not to appear despite numerous appeals from the survivors and bereaved legal teams. It is a decision that none of us were happy with. AT ALL. Statements only are one way information. I didn’t care if he had a private and remote link. If language is still a barrier for him then use a translater (the young student from Italy who broke her back escaping from Calocane managed to do it). The Inquiry knows this. They know how we feel. Sadly we are powerless and bound by the decision. No doubt this post will cause consternation. But it’s my point of view and opinion. And I will always be fully transparent. He has information we deserve to hear. Proper answers with detail and evidence that go beyond short sentence answers. We know that there were serious fractures in this family: - the ‘scratch injury’ over a washing up argument resulted in the Police attending an assault. - why did they not know where he lived for much of his 20s? - it appears he refused to give them his addresses. It appears they thought he was in Newcastle yet he was in Birmingham ? - arrived in Wales when he was 16 and by 19 he had left home because ‘he didn’t like his father’s rules. - disagreement over - very ‘devout’ Christian beliefs (read the text messages BOTH ways) between the two brothers. - family history of mental health issues. - detail on action taken by the family (including the father) on the two episodes in 2021 when Calocane drove five hours in a psychotic state to sit outside the family home. - how could the family, including a registered Nurse, not know of his illness when they were both present with Doctors and asking questions about depot meds (which are used for medical conditions such as paranoid schizophrenia which was also actually diagnosed as early as Sept 2020. It’s in the notes!). Did they not talk to each other as parents? - he doesn’t appear to have the concerns about suicide that his son Elias evidenced so strongly in his evidence? - dates when he saw and spoke to his eldest son between 2020-2023 (less than a handful of times we believe). - question about that final call made to him late night on the 12th June. What action did he take, what did he discuss with his wife. - clarification of regularity of calls or emails with VC in 2023. We were told family had lost contact with him? - clarification of when he knew what his son had done (seems a rather casual reference to such catastrophic news). Despite how this may appear. It is not vindictive or bullying. What is apparent from the new evidence that has come forward during the inquiry is that there is much more ‘history’ than has been previously revealed about Calocane and his family. This is important and it is relevant. His child destroyed my family. He stole my son from us. Surely to have the chance to have answers and the truth is the very least I/we are entitled to? @drsanjoykumar @coatesaholic @CoatesMania

He should have been sectioned at the right level and for the appropriate amount of time (however long that needed to be).

In a word - yes. Many many times over 💔

Thanks @jomarshall111 I hadn’t! @Fhamiltontimes is without doubt one of the finest journalists in this country. @thetimes 👏

Our new family. 💚💛 We hold each other up when the other is down, we wipe the tears, we cry together, we shout together. We may be a hotchpotch, and at times, dysfunctional bunch. But we are united and will always stand in solidarity for and with each other. …we WILL move mountains 💪 For Grace. For Ian. For Barney. 💛❤️💚

My goodness. What a huge amount of coverage. I hope @10DowningStreet managed to catch some of it?

Every Agency Failed’: Nottingham Victims’ Families Deliver Devastating Verdict. “Every single agency failed. Every single one, without exception." Those were the devastating words of Barnaby Webber's mother as the Nottingham attacks inquiry concluded. The families of Barnaby Webber, Grace O'Malley-Kumar and Ian Coates say repeated failures by multiple agencies allowed Valdo Calocane to remain free despite numerous warning signs and previous contact with authorities. They believe opportunities to intervene were missed time and time again, with concerns about stigma and bias sometimes taking precedence over protecting the public. Three innocent lives were lost. Three families were left shattered forever. Now they are demanding accountability, answers, and meaningful change so that no other family has to endure the pain they have lived with every day since that terrible night. Their message is simple: This tragedy was not inevitable. It was preventable.

Couldn’t not say a few (croaky) words about today. Thank you to all who listened and covered and contributed. Up in Manchester for @BBCBreakfast @bbc5live and @GMB tomorrow morning. Then finally home to Somerset. And Charlie!!!!❤️ (and the dogs and cat). #nottinghaminquiry 💚💛

‘A catastrophic collapse of responsibility’ 💔

Mother of Nottingham attacks victim says there has been ‘miscarriage of justice’