U.K. appeals court asked to review sentencing of killer of 3 in Nottingham [Video]

LONDON –

The British government’s top lawyer has referred to the U.K.’s Court of Appeal the sentence handed to a 32-year-old man with paranoid schizophrenia who fatally stabbed two college students and a man in the central English city of Nottingham last summer, arguing that it was “unduly lenient.”

Attorney General Victoria Prentis said Tuesday she had asked the court to reconsider last month’s sentencing of Valdo Calocane to an indefinite hospital order after he pleaded guilty to manslaughter on the grounds of diminished responsibility as a result of his mental illness. The judge in his case said that he would “most probably” spend the rest of his life in a high-security medical facility.

Family members of those killed by Calocane on the early hours of June 13 — Barnaby Webber and Grace O’Malley-Kumar, both 19, and school caretaker Ian Coates, 65 — slammed the verdict, saying that he should have been …