Up to 2,700 killers, sex offenders and other violent criminals are receiving benefits because they have been sent to secure hospitals rather than prison, the Telegraph can reveal.
Triple killer Valdo Calocane is entitled to claim thousands of pounds in state benefits a year despite being detained in a secure hospital for his violent crimes, The Telegraph can reveal.
Police failed to take full toxicology test samples from triple killer Valdo Calocane (pictured) that could have led to him being handed a stiffer sentence - but they did test his victims.
Nottingham knife killerĀ Valdo Calocane (pictured) knew what he was doing and was not insane when he stabbed three people to death and attempted to kill three more, experts claimed.
Grace, fellow University of Nottingham student Barnaby Webber, both 19, and school caretaker Ian Coates, 65, were killed by Valdo Calocane in Nottingham on June 13 last year,