Prosecutors have accepted Nottingham triple-killer Valdo Calocane's pleas of not guilty to murder and guilty to manslaughter on the grounds of diminished responsibility due to "serious" mental illness, a judge has been told.Prosecutor Karim Khalil KC told Nottingham Crown Court on Tuesday that the families of university students Barnaby Webber and Grace O'Malley-Kumar, both 19, and school caretaker Ian Coates, 65, had been consulted before deciding to accept the pleas entered by Calocane, 32.

Prosecutors have accepted Nottingham triple-killer Valdo Calocane's pleas of not guilty to murder and guilty to manslaughter on the grounds of diminished responsibility due to "serious" mental illness, a judge has been told.Prosecutor Karim Khalil KC told Nottingham Crown Court on Tuesday that the families of university students Barnaby Webber and Grace O'Malley-Kumar, both 19, and school caretaker Ian Coates, 65, had been consulted before deciding to accept the pleas entered by Calocane, 32.