The father of Grace O’Malley-Kumar has described his daughter 'as the love of his life' at the Inquiry into her death
Grace died alongside Barnaby Webber and Ian Coates in 2023 at the hands of paranoid schizophrenic Valdo Calocane
The father of Grace O’Malley-Kumar said that if his daughter’s killer had not brutally attacked her, he would have done it to someone else’s child.
Sanjoy Kumar told the Nottingham attacks inquiry: “The analogy I use with VC (Valdo Calocane) is that VC was like an oil tank who crashed into our children and Ian. A one degree change in his course, he could have ended up in a different continent.”
Dr Kumar added: “If he’d missed our children, he would’ve hit someone else’s.
“(For) ACC Griffin (Assistant Chief Constable Rob Griffin) to say to us that the outcome might not have been any different either is so horrendously abusive to us.
“Because it is quite obvious, as Mr Moloney (Tim Moloney, who represents the bereaved families) pointed out, if this man had been arrested and if the police had done their jobs, we would have had a different outcome.”
The inquiry has now finished for the day and will resume on Thursday morning.