A review has found prosecutors were ‘right’ to accept manslaughter pleas from the killer of Barnaby Webber.
It comes after a review into the sentencing of Valdo Calocane, who killed the former Taunton School student as well as well as two others in an attack in Nottingham in June last year.
Calocane was handed down a hospital order earlier this year for manslaughter on the basis of diminished responsibility due to suffering from paranoid schizophrenia.
The decision by the prosecution has now been examined by His Majesty’s Crown Prosecution Service Inspectorate, which has found the decision to accept the pleas was the correct one.
Reportedly the victims’ families have expressed “disappointment” in the findings, though said they were ‘not surprised’ by them.
The report also recommended that the categorisation of homicide should be changed, to include first degree murder, second degree murder and manslaughter.
It comes after prosecutors agreed there would be ‘no prospect’ of securing a murder conviction before accepting the manslaughter pleas.