A man has pleaded guilty to the manslaughter of two students and a caretaker in a spate of attacks in Nottingham.

But Valdo Calocane, 32, has denied murdering Barnaby Webber, Grace O’Malley-Kumar and Ian Coates on 13 June this year.

He pleaded guilty to attempting to murder three others.

His pleas have been entered on the basis of diminished responsibility, his barrister Peter Joyce KC told Nottingham Crown Court.

University of Nottingham students Ms O’Malley-Kumar and Mr Webber, both 19, had been celebrating the end of their exams when they were stabbed to death as they walked home from a night out.

School caretaker Mr Coates, 65, was also killed on his way to work at Huntingdon Academy.

Calocane, who was himself a former student at the university, also hit three pedestrians – Wayne Birkett, Marcin Gawronski and Sharon Miller – while driving Mr Coates’ van in Milton Street and Upper Parliament Street, in the city centre.

He was arrested on the day of the attacks.

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