Tributes have continued to flood in for two talented first-year students and a school caretaker after they were stabbed to death during a violent rampage in Nottingham.
Medical student Grace O’Malley-Kumar and history student Barnaby Webber, who were both studying at the University of Nottingham (UoN), were found fatally knifed in the street by police at 4.04am on Tuesday
The third victim, Ian Coates, 65, who was a caretaker for Huntingdon Academy primary school, was on his way to work when he was stabbed and had his van stolen.
Speaking at the scene of the murder, his sons said he was “a die-hard Forest fan” and a keen fisherman who took young people from deprived backgrounds fishing to try to divert them from crime.
Lee Coates said his father’s death had “rocked everyone’s world”, adding: “If we had to think about it, he’d be lying in a bed with us holding his hand, him dying naturally in 20 to 30 years’ time.”
“Not dying on a street because some guy decided it’s not his day today,” Lee’s brother James added.
