The sentence of a man who stabbed three people to death in Nottingham was not unduly lenient, judges have ruled.
Valdo Calocane killed Barnaby Webber and Grace O’Malley-Kumar, both 19, and 65-year-old Ian Coates on 13 June 2023.
He was given an indefinite hospital order after prosecutors accepted a plea of manslaughter on the grounds of diminished responsibility.
On Wednesday, Court of Appeal judges rejected an appeal against the sentence by the attorney general.
Speaking at the hearing, Lady Chief Justice Baroness Carr concluded there was “no error” in the sentence given by Mr Justice Turner at Nottingham Crown Court in January.
She said Calocane was in the “grips of a severe psychotic episode” at the time.
Mr Justice Turner came to the “reasonable conclusion” that the aim of protecting the public would be best served by a hospital order, she added.
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