The Nottingham Inquiry is an independent statutory inquiry, under the Inquiries Act 2005 and the Inquiry Rules 2006.
Find out about the people working in the inquiry team, led by Her Honour Deborah Taylor.
Inquiry timeline
June 2023
On 13 June 2023 Valdo Calocane, who suffered from paranoid schizophrenia and had previous interactions with health services and the police, killed three people and seriously injured three other people in Nottingham city centre.
The deceased were Barney Webber1, Grace O’Malley-Kumar and Ian Coates. The injured were Sharon Miller, Wayne Birkett and Marcin Gawronski.
February 2025
On 12 February 2025, the Prime Minister met the bereaved families and the survivors and confirmed that a statutory inquiry would be established to look into the circumstances surrounding the Nottingham attacks.
April 2025
On 22 April 2025, in a statement to the House of Commons, the Lord Chancellor and Secretary of State for Justice, the Rt Hon Shabana Mahmood MP, formally announced the Nottingham Inquiry and that it would be chaired by HH Deborah Taylor.
May 2025
On 22 May 2025, the Terms of Reference for the Inquiry were formally laid in Parliament.
- Whilst he is referred to formally in the Terms of Reference as Barnaby, he was known to his family and friends as Barney. ↩︎