What did the judge say during sentencing?
Mr Justice Turner started by telling Calocane he would be "detained in a high-security hospital probably for the rest of your life". He said Calocane's "sickening crimes" had shocked the nation and "wrecked the life" of the surviving victims and families.
He described Calocane’s deadly rampage, which ended when he was tasered by police, and then detailed the development of Calocane’s mental illness.
Calocane began to hear voices in his head in 2019, the judge said, becoming convinced he was being spied on by his housemates and MI5. He stopped taking medication because he believed he was not unwell, attacked a police officer trying to arrange a mental health assessment and later disengaged with mental health services.
Mr Justice Turner quoted several assessments of Calocane made by doctors following his arrest, one of whom said he would "never be cured and require long term very cautious management - almost certainly for the rest of his life".
The judge said there had been no evidence to suggest Calocane had been liable to be violent before the onset of his mental illness. And he noted that Calocane was still refusing to take medication prescribed to him.
"You still labour under the strong impression that the voices in your head are real and that you don’t suffer any mental illness whatsoever," he said.
Discussing the type of sentence Calocane should receive, the judge said: "Regardless of the level of personal responsibility, you were and remain dangerous."
He ordered Calocane to stand as sentence was passed, and ordered that he be detained in the high-security Ashworth Hospital under Section 37 of the Mental Health Act, with no timeframe for his release.
Mr Justice Turner started by telling Calocane he would be "detained in a high-security hospital probably for the rest of your life". He said Calocane's "sickening crimes" had shocked the nation and "wrecked the life" of the surviving victims and families.
He described Calocane’s deadly rampage, which ended when he was tasered by police, and then detailed the development of Calocane’s mental illness.
Calocane began to hear voices in his head in 2019, the judge said, becoming convinced he was being spied on by his housemates and MI5. He stopped taking medication because he believed he was not unwell, attacked a police officer trying to arrange a mental health assessment and later disengaged with mental health services.
Mr Justice Turner quoted several assessments of Calocane made by doctors following his arrest, one of whom said he would "never be cured and require long term very cautious management - almost certainly for the rest of his life".
The judge said there had been no evidence to suggest Calocane had been liable to be violent before the onset of his mental illness. And he noted that Calocane was still refusing to take medication prescribed to him.
"You still labour under the strong impression that the voices in your head are real and that you don’t suffer any mental illness whatsoever," he said.
Discussing the type of sentence Calocane should receive, the judge said: "Regardless of the level of personal responsibility, you were and remain dangerous."
He ordered Calocane to stand as sentence was passed, and ordered that he be detained in the high-security Ashworth Hospital under Section 37 of the Mental Health Act, with no timeframe for his release.
