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is from today, will hang an accountability at an organisational and individual level will we will level will happen. we will ensure it. president trump says the us will take over gaza, dramatic shift in middle east policy in decades. police in sweden say they still haven't found a motive for tuesday's mass shooting — the worst in the country's history. hello, you're live with bbc news. i'm catherine byaruhanga. an nhs review has found.
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the report found numerous failings over valdo calocane, who stabbed to death barnaby webber, grace medication because he did not like needles. calocane�*s risk was not fully understood and there were missed opportunities to take more with mental health services or his gp for about nine months prior to the killings. in the wake of the review, the families of calocane�*s victims held a press conference. emma webber, mother of 19—year—old barnaby, without the support
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and guidance we've would have been, as i suspect the agencies and the cps had hoped, brushed under the carpet. will be learned category. enough is enough. accountability at an organisational and individual level will happen. we will ensure it. james coates, son of ian coates who was just four months from retirement when calocane stabbed him to death — who do we turn to when we need help? the police. they failed us.
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and with hudgell solicitors as well to helping us. like, i don't know where we would be if we didn't have ourselves as a group and this family that we've been thrust together because of one horrific day, to go out on a murdering spree. she was at that press conference. afterwards, she spoke to solicitor neil hudgell and dr sanjoy kumar, the father of grace calocane. handled the mental health care of valdo calocane was pretty damning. or managed or communicated.
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injune 2023, coates�*s family all spoke and shared their reaction. well, i'mjoined now by grace o'malley—kumar father, dr sanjoy kumar, and the lawyer representing the families, neil hudgell. let's start with you, doctor kumar. well, first and foremost, it was alarming to read literally all of the failings. i mean, there were... so horrendous. there were so many failings all the way vertically up a chain from the basics on the ground, all the way up through the consultant teams. we weren't just failed once, valdo calocane was sectioned four times and four times didn't change, his
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medication didn't change. we've heard before by the cqc that this was a systemic failure, but i wanted more grit, i wanted more detail in this report, which had about some of them, one of the most to his gp. who is known previously to mental which means basically put back into the community to cause
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it beggars belief that someone of state for health onto the trust to actually made this possible. irresponsibly back in the community. neil, let's turn to you. as we heard in that news conference, dr kumar what would have to happen for that to actually go ahead? well, the government has obviously promised an inquiry. an inquiry can be wide ranging.
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so compelability of witnesses, to be judge—led, to enable documents to be produced and investigations, nine in total. _ some concluded, some not so where the families' very grave in many instances, they've been marginalised and have been ignored. of all this is that there are going to be so many gaps questions of relevance to their roles and responsibilities, can be called to account. 0k. thank you very much. neil hudgell representing the families. dr kumar, i'd like to end by asking
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you a few more questions. absolutely. we have been through pain in front of the steps of the crown court in nottingham. and i think not one day has gone past when we haven't has been a challenge. at hudgell�*s, i think we are going to finally get is extremely painful. all of the changes we are bringing now are in the names of our children. and in the case
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ofjames, his father, and i think, you know, no family should have to go through this. this is grossly unfair. in the first place, but the grieving process and just on that note, how do you want people watching this to honour grace's memory? grace was an incredible girl. in the national health service herself. she was very proud to one day be a doctor and serve the community. that we can honour our brave and beautiful daughter. 0k. the time to share your story, because i appreciate, every time you do, it's difficult for you, so we do appreciate it, dr kumar, and thank you very much, neil hudgell as well forjoining us here on bbc news.
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and dr kumar there says he's going the overwhelming feeling today is that this is not and in the end, justice for grace o'malley—kumar, that was my colleague rajini vaidyanathan there. palestinian leaders have dismissed a proposal control of the gaza strip. east', but critics of the plan say it would amount to ethnic
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and let's look at some of the words from some of the middle east delegates.
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