Thousands attend vigil as families of victims embrace– latest

Three people – Barnaby Webber, Grace Kumar and Ian Coates – were killed in the Nottingham attacks.

A 31-year-old man remains in police custody after being arrested on suspicion of murder.

Here is how the incident unfolded:

Nottingham MP Lilian Greenwood has paid tribute to those who died in attacks in the city in the early hours of Tuesday, 13 June.

Ian Coates, a “beloved and respected” academy site manager, and two University of Nottingham students Barnaby Webber and Grace Kumar, have been named as victims of the deadly rampage.

Three others, one of whom is in a critical condition in hospital, were injured.

“There’s nothing really I can say that’s going to make this right. It’s absolutely, desperately sad,” the Labour politician said.

A pensioner came face to face with a man suspected to be behind the triple murders in Nottingham as he attempted to break into his bedroom.

The resident of the care home on Mapperley Road told The Independent that he “punched” his glass bay window and added: “No one’s coming in my room.”

CCTV shows a man peering through the ground floor window before being shooed away by a staff member. The incident happened at around 4am and form part of a series of deadly incidents across Nottingham.

Two of Ian Coates’ sons have paid tribute to their father who was killed in a fatal stabbing in Nottingham on Tuesday.

Speaking of his dad, Lee Coates said: “If we had to think about it, he’d be lying in a bed with us holding his hand.

“He was due to retire in four months, he was still grafting. He wasn’t a big fella, it’s rocked everyone’s world. He would have been on his way into work.

“He was a massive Forest fan, a die hard fan – he tattooed the Forest badge on himself when he was younger.

“He was an avid fisher, a Notts angler and he was teaching underprivileged kids to try and get them away from a life of crime. You genuinely couldn’t find a nicer guy.”

His brother James added: “He was everyone’s friend, always willing to help. Nobody deserves this but he definitely didn’t.

“None of them did, it’s a tragedy. Him dying naturally in 20 to 30 years time, not dying on a street because some guy decided it’s not his day today.”

The families of two teenagers killed in the knife and van attack in Nottingham have described their “complete devastation”, as they paid tributes to their “adored” children.

The rampage in the early hours of Tuesday saw students and talented sportspeople Barnaby Webber and Grace Kumar, both aged 19, fatally stabbed by an assailant, who then proceeded to knife to death school caretaker Ian Coates, before stealing his van and mowing down three others.

Nottingham remained in shock on Tuesday as thousands of students who should be enjoying the end of their exams in the sun instead attended a vigil for two of friends taken from them too soon.

History student Barnaby Webber and medical student Grace O’Malley-Kumar were both fatally knifed on Ilkeston Road in a “seemingly random” act of violence.

In a poignant moment of embrace the families of the two students linked hands as they lay flowers at the event.

The suspect is then believed to have murdered school caretaker Ian Coates, 65, on Magdala Road before stealing his van and driving into three further victims in the city centre.

Holly Evans reports for The Independent from Nottingham.

Residents living in Nottingham city centre have described woke up to a “blood-curdling scream” during a string of early morning attacks that left three people dead.

Within hours, Nottinghamshire Police declared a major incident after multiple victims were stabbed and three more were run over by a van, believed to have been stolen from one of the earlier casualties.

Two students from the University of Nottingham, Barnaby Webber and Grace Kumar, were killed in the attacks on Tuesday.

Grace O’Malley-Kumar’s father thanked the thousands of people who came out to pay tribute to his daughter and Barnaby Webber.

“Everyone here I really want to thank you for your support, for taking the time to be here, all of guys everywhere, I see a sea of people. Such a lovely sign of the University and the bond you have.

“Grace was also like Barney she loved coming up to Nottingham, in fact we couldn’t get her down. I said to her last week come down and she said after she’s had a few more sessions. I used to call them her crisis meetings.

“But, you know the love we have out here, I just wish we had it everywhere. So, look after each other. The big thing is that, look after your friends and look after people around you, that is so important.

“I think Grace and her friend, they fell together, and you need to be friends with everyone and need to love everyone and I wish we had more of it.”

Stood next to Barnaby’s father, he added: “We had children taken from us prematurely, that should never happen to any parent”.