Two women still in hospital after Carterton Costa Coffee crash
Two women are still in hospital after a car smashed through the window of a Costa Coffee.Three people were seriously injured when the vehicle crashed into the shop on Burford Road, Carterton, Oxfordshire, on Wednesday afternoon.On Friday, Thames Valley Police said a 38-year-old man who was injured had since been discharged, but two other people - a 64-year-old woman from Headington and a 75-year-old woman from Carterton - remained in hospital.No arrests have been made. Police previously said they did not believe the crash had been a deliberate act by the driver.
Det Con Darren Baker asked anyone who witnessed the crash or had dashcam footage on Burford Road at about 14:00 BST to come forward.
A Costa Coffee spokesperson previously said the company's thoughts were "with the individuals involved"."We are supporting our team members at this time," they added."We are unable to comment further while the investigation is ongoing."
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EXCLUSIVE Father of stabbed Nottingham student Barnaby Webber reveals his guilt and anger that he couldn't protect his boy - and the intolerable strain grief has had on his marriage
Tomorrow David Webber will watch his 17-year-old son Charlie play cricket in a match at Nottingham University in memory of his brother Barney who was senselessly killed there two years ago at the age of 19. Charlie will wear his 'brilliant, sporty' older brother's number 53 shirt. Barney's mother Emma, who crusades relentlessly to find justice for him and dulls her pain with medication on particularly 'difficult days', says 'sadly, it's too much for me' to be there, too. By rights, David and Emma should be proudly anticipating their dearly loved eldest son's graduation from this university next month. But, as David says, 'Barney will never take his degree in history, never have his 21st birthday, never grow into the man he was becoming.' Instead, he says, 'Barney is trapped at 19 for ever and left there while everyone else is moving on', following his vicious stabbing in the early hours of the morning on June 13, 2023, as he and close friend Grace O'Malley-Kumar walked back to the halls after a night out. Their monstrous killer Valdo Calocane went on to slaughter 65-year-old school caretaker Ian Coates and tried to kill three other people. Today, after admitting three counts of manslaughter on the grounds of diminished responsibility owing to paranoid schizophrenia, as well as three counts of attempted murder, Calocane is able to watch DVDs, build Lego and play musical instruments in his cell at the 'soft' NHS psychiatric Ashworth Hospital where he is detained. Meanwhile, Barney's ashes remain in an urn at the funeral directors. 'We've not been able to pick him up,' says David. 'Emma and I have talked about it and both of us have said we really can't at the moment. 'I can't explain why. I think a big part of us knows it's just another tick to say, 'He's gone'. Even though you know he has, maybe it puts another layer of confirmation on it.' Similarly, they can't bring themselves to touch Barney's bedroom which is as it was on the day he returned to Nottingham for a cricket match at the end of the summer term two years ago, while his post piles up and remains unopened in the kitchen. 'We're both petrified of seeing something, like a letter to Barney or a bank statement, that will trigger us,' says David. 'There are lots and lots of memories that suddenly come back that you try to push away to hold yourself together. I remember him in this kitchen, there.' He points to the wooden dining table, gesturing to four chairs. 'Barney would sit there, Emma there, Charlie there and I'd sit there. Now I tend to sit there more.' His hand rests on the back of Barney's seat. By rights, David and Emma (pictured) should be proudly anticipating their dearly loved eldest son's graduation from this university next month. But, as David says, 'Barney will never take his degree in history, never have his 21st birthday, never grow into the man he was becoming' David looks at me. 'I feel like I let him down because I'm his father and I didn't protect him,' he says. 'But how could I? What could I have done? 'I know that's the logical response but there's a part of you, especially as a bloke – some primeval part of your brain – that goes, 'I should have been there and stood in front of the saber-toothed tiger and stopped him from attacking Barney.' 'You find yourself fantasising about inventing a time machine, to return to that day and stop him being there. 'The dreams I have are horrible. One quite frequent one is where he's there. I know he's there.' David reaches out his arm in front of him to demonstrate. 'I'm trying to get to him and I can't. I just keep trying to grab him, but I can't.' He clutches at emptiness in front of him as tears roll down his face. 'You know something awful is about to happen, but I can't reach him. You wake up in a cold sweat. It's horrible.' We pause for David to collect himself. It's a miracle he can. For in truth, his family – just like those of Grace and Ian – have been appallingly let down by the police, the NHS, the justice system, the government and just about every public servant whose duty it is to protect us all from monsters like Valdo Calocane. This is the first in-depth interview David has given in the terrible two years since the savage killer shattered so many lives. His pain remains raw. 'We try for Charlie, to have a normal – as much as it will ever be normal – life going forward. Part of that is to have a nice family holiday every year. We have just got back from Morocco. Charlie took a friend with him because it used to be him and Barney – but it's difficult. 'You can see in his eyes he struggles with it. Emma struggles with it. I struggle with it. He wants his brother with him. We all do. 'Charlie's at an age now where Barney would find him interesting instead of thinking he was a pain in the arse. He would be Barney's drinking buddy. They'd be out having a laugh. He always looked up to his brother and that's the bit he wanted' David, 53, has been diagnosed with severe depression, anxiety and complex PTSD. He was unable to even attempt to return to work as a director of an IT company until January this year. He says his co-director has been nothing short of 'a saint' holding the fort, but David continues to find concentrating on anything other than his son's killing 'very difficult'. 'I still have lots of flashbacks of when I saw him in the hospital [in Nottingham] just lying there and his face, the beauty of it – that lovely smile he had still there. 'I held his hand, talked to him, kissed his head and told him I loved him. 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'As a couple, there are times you're sort of paddling your own canoe – going into your own self-protection and your own 'I need to survive' mode. That sort of isolates you in some bizarre way. 'Other times you think, 'Actually, this might have driven us closer.' It changes you as a person. You're not as emotionally attached. It's hard to find the words to explain but your physical relationship is no longer as it was. 'I don't feel particularly handsome and Emma probably doesn't feel particularly sexy or pretty or whatever. You sort of just exist and try to fire yourself up to do what you need to do to find justice for Barney. You feel guilty if you're having a nice time. 'When you find yourself enjoying life you suddenly check yourself and think, 'I shouldn't be doing this.' I suppose, the guilt sits there between you. 'Emma and I are very close. We love each other but there's no sort of spark. 'As for Charlie, he calls me 'creepy dad'. You want to give your children all the freedom in the world but, when you've had this happen to you, you want to know where they are every minute of every day. 'Obviously, you can't live your life that way but if I lost Charlie as well, I think it would just finish me. I can barely function now.' The lives of Barney's and Grace's parents have been consumed with their fight to establish why paranoid schizophrenic Calocane – 'a ticking time bomb' – was free to kill their children, since they learnt he was not to be charged with murder six months after that terrible night. Ian's sons – Darren, James and Lee – are battling with them to seek the truth. Four months ago, an NHS England report was published, finally revealing the catastrophic mistakes that allowed Calocane, who had been sectioned four times, onto the streets of Nottingham. 'He was attacking his flatmates, stalking people. You know he attacked a police officer and had to get tasered? 'They put out a warrant for his arrest but he was never arrested. This report is littered with examples of the number of times he should have been stopped. 'When he assaulted his flatmate, one of the psychiatrists said he believed Calocane could kill. If that's not a red line to lock him up and keep the public safe, what is?' asks David. 'The psychiatrists were just discharging him back onto the streets and he'd stop taking his medication. The fourth time he's sectioned there's talk of 'depot medication' [long-acting, injectable antipsychotics that are slowly released into the body over weeks and months] but he refused because he doesn't like needles. 'He said he'd continue taking his tablets so he's released. Instead of being monitored, he's discharged to his GP when they can't get hold of him. How ludicrous is that? These people weren't doing their jobs properly. They should be held to account.' 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'I'm not generally an angry person, it's not in my DNA but, when it comes to that monster who killed my son, I have massive anger. What makes my blood boil is that he's got away with murder. If he was in front of me and I had the opportunity to kill him I would, absolutely. 'He made a conscious decision to murder my son. 'Yes, he was ill, but he still made decisions. He was still in control. He could get a train. He could go to a cashpoint and go to buy a sandwich. He could drive a car. Don't tell me you can do all of that but not control yourself. 'Mental health is a reason for someone's behaviour but it's not an excuse.' David remembers every minute of that dreadful day. He was with Emma at the family's holiday lodge in Cornwall when the TV news began to report what was happening in Nottingham. After locating Barney's mobile in Ilkeston Road on his Find My Phone app, he called the police. 'When I said who my son was, I could hear the person on the phone's tone change completely. They said, 'It's really hectic here. We'll get someone to call you back.' Then I saw the phone moving towards the police station. 'Emma was in the middle of a work's team meeting. I said, 'We've got to go now.' 'We chucked the dogs in the car and began driving to Nottingham to my son. 'I didn't know if he was safe or not. Even if I got there and he just fell out of the pub because he's been out all night and had dropped his phone in Ilkeston Road, I'd have been the happiest man alive.' He was haring through Cornwall when his phone rang. It was a policewoman. 'When they won't quite tell you why they are calling, but ask if there's somewhere safe you can pull over, your heart just drops. You know what you are going to hear.' The policewoman could not confirm it was definitely Barney, but they'd found his driving licence in his wallet. Emma got out of the car and fell to her knees. 'I didn't know what to say or do,' says David. 'I couldn't believe it. All I remember is saying, 'I've got to get to my other son.' Charlie was at a school activities week in Torquay. Thankfully, the teacher in charge had separated him from his classmates before he'd seen the news on his phone. David does not know to this day who released his son's name to the media. Charlie was in the minibus when David and Emma arrived. 'Charlie is a very intelligent boy. We thought the best way of dealing with it wasn't to try to sugarcoat it so we told him Barney had been murdered. 'It was awful. He just broke down screaming and ran off.' The family travelled to Nottingham the following day where they met Grace's parents for the first time at a vigil for their children. 'The shock takes over,' says David. 'You can't quite fathom what's happening. There were so many people there crying – bless them.' David stood beside Grace's devastated father, Sanjoy, united in grief as they both addressed the mourning crowd with generous words of love. 'Nothing was rehearsed. I just found myself speaking. Maybe it's the British way.' Today Sanjoy and David speak often. He is, says David, sort of like a brother now. 'We're intrinsically linked for the rest of our lives. Barney and Grace fell together. Bless her, Grace tried to stop him attacking Barney. Emma says it all the time, 'Silly girl, why didn't you run?' But she wasn't that character. She wouldn't let her friend down. 'If it had been the other way round Barney, would never have left her.' Last month, Nottingham announced they would grant posthumous degrees to Barney and Grace, but David says, 'I would struggle to go and collect it as the pain of not seeing him getting it himself would be too much, especially when everyone else is graduating and quite rightly happy to be starting the next chapter of life.' On Friday, Barney and Grace's families will lay a rose where their children fell together on Ilkeston Road. Afterwards, they will walk with Ian's three sons to the place where their father was attacked. All are determined to continue their fight to hold the authorities to account. 'On Monday we see [the Health Secretary] Wes Streeting. 'We've got a statutory public inquiry where all that has happened will come out but that won't be until next year. 'We need change now. The people who allowed this to happen need to be held accountable for their mistakes now. How many more people need to be murdered by those with mental health issues for this to stop? 'We need to make the streets safer and protect all our sons and daughters. If we can do that, in the name of Barney, Grace and Ian, then that, I suppose, is success. But the main problem – the bit that really tears you apart – is that they are not here and we can't bring them back.'
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Daily Mail
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One rule for travellers... another for villagers who have been left in tears by 'shock and awe' of bulldozing Green Belt field to make way for caravan camp
With its lush green fields and horses grazing on sun-dappled pastures, it's hard to imagine a more tranquil spot than the country lanes on the outskirts of the Cheshire village of Burtonwood on a summer's day. So, on the evening of Friday, May 23, the residents of the houses dotted along Tan House Lane and Farmer's Lane, which it curves into, were looking forward to enjoying the Bank Holiday weekend in their bucolic hideaways. But they were in for a very rude awakening. 'They came in en masse, truck after truck after truck, all through the night as they got to work,' says one despairing local. 'It was a massive convoy, like an Army operation. The noise was unbearable – you couldn't sleep.' This invasion of machines, including bulldozers, headed for a six-acre plot of greenbelt land recently acquired by travellers. Once there, the vehicles 'tore it apart', in the words of another horrified homeowner who lives about a hundred yards away. 'The machinery was so big some of the fixtures in the house were shaking,' he says. 'It was scary, like an earthquake. At first we didn't know what it was.' In fact, what was happening over last month's bank holiday weekend was the building of a traveller camp – cynically and carefully timed to avoid being stopped by the local council, because it was effectively shut until the following Tuesday. The work was carried out with such ruthless efficiency that after 72 hours of near non-stop labour (with the site lit up like 'Blackpool Illuminations' at night, according to another resident who does not want to be named) the once green and pleasant plot now resembles a soulless gravel car park surrounded by an inhospitable 10ft-high wooden fence. It is a modus operandi which has become depressingly familiar across the country over bank holiday weekends in recent years. Travellers carry out brazen 'landgrabs' when the authorities go on a three-day holiday, after either purchasing sites or setting up camp on land they don't own without permission. Either way, they know that time is on their side. In the case of Burtonwood, near Warrington, it all began that Friday evening with caravans driving on to a far corner of the plot, followed by the heavy machinery and trucks at about 6pm. Then the work began. One local estimates it involved taking up and removing 53 loads of soil and putting down 53 loads of hardcore. 'With all the machinery and the fencing they put up, I'd say the work cost £40,000 to £50,000,' he adds. The triangular plot of land off Tan House Lane – previously owned by former village residents – had been advertised for sale with an asking price of £85,000 on property website Rightmove. 'Nestled in the serene surroundings of Burtonwood, this plot presents a rare chance to provide a spacious paddock,' read the Rightmove blurb. The previous owners of the land, who are understood to have moved out of the village two years ago but kept the six-acre plot until its recent sale, were unavailable for comment. Villagers have not blamed them for what has happened, because they take the view they could not have foreseen what the new owners would do. At least two locals are believed to have put in alternative offers, thought to have been for the full asking price, with the intention of using it as a paddock. The talk in Burtonwood when the Mail visited this week was that the land had been bought for above the asking price, with some claiming that the travellers, or one of them, paid £100,000 for it, although that figure has not been officially confirmed. What is clear is that the travellers – apart from apparently having deep pockets – seem hell-bent on making the plot a permanent home. They have called it 'Burtonwood Park', with that grandiose-sounding name now emblazoned in gold letters on a black sign they have put up near the camp's entrance, along with a small, black, metal letterbox. While they appear to have purchased the land legitimately, by converting it into a camp and carrying out unauthorised work they have ridden roughshod over planning regulations. 'Green Belt' is a well known land protection that prevents urban sprawl, helps preserve the countryside and maintain the character of existing settlements. The travellers have told villagers that they can do what they want because they own the land and they are making a retrospective planning application. Meanwhile, Warrington Borough Council has said it is aware of the 'potential breach of planning control' and is 'investigating' the development as well as issuing an enforcement notice. In a statement on Thursday it added: 'The national planning system allows for an application to be made retrospectively, and we understand that the developer may seek to submit a valid planning application.' Villagers have described the situation as 'ridiculous' and said they don't expect the travellers to be gone soon – if ever. 'Similar council investigations have dragged on for months. And if the retrospective planning application is refused, the travellers can always appeal and drag it out even longer,' says one. Tensions in the village are now running so high that many of the nearly 50 people who attended a surgery held by local independent councillor Stuart Mann, coincidentally arranged for the day after the 'invasion', were 'in tears' because of the 'shock and awe' manner of the interlopers' arrival the night before and the speed with which the work was done. Another worried resident says: 'Travellers are a law unto themselves. My gut feeling is that they won't get moved and we're stuck with them. It's devastating. 'We've worked so hard to get where we are and have a nice house here, and then somebody just comes and annihilates everything we've strived for in life. It's bound to devalue properties here, no matter how lovely those properties are, or make them difficult to sell. Who'd want to move near to that?' Burtonwood was famous during the Second World War for having a major US airbase nearby. Nowadays the village, not far from the M62, has a population of about 3,500, with the main residential area, pub and shops at the other end of Farmer's Lane from the traveller camp. Niomi Casey, 32, an accountant, and her husband Kieran Casey, 33, a sales director, only moved into their five-bedroom detached house two months ago. In a tucked away position, the estimated worth of the building was £750,000. But recent events have cast a pall over what they hoped would be a dream move to the countryside with their two children. Mrs Casey says: 'On the Friday when it started we heard it all through the night. My partner rang the police, we couldn't sleep. The police said it was a council issue in terms of noise and we'd have to wait till the Tuesday when the council came back. 'The travellers timed it perfectly. They know what they're doing and how to time it to make the most out of it. 'We moved here from a Victorian terrace house in Salford. We wanted outside space for the children and rural surroundings. Now we're thinking what does it mean for the value of our house if we wanted to sell in the future? 'It was a big investment for us. Some people are speculating as much as £200,000 could be knocked off the value of their houses.' The owners of another house, which has three bedrooms and several acres of land with an estimated value of £800,000, said they were also worried about the 'stigma' attached to traveller sites and how being near to one might impact property prices. Sharon Saunders, 68, a retired legal assistant who has lived in her detached house nearby for 34 years, has concerns, too. 'We never have any trouble here, it's a quiet place,' she says. 'I've always walked my German shepherd, Tia, along the dirt track in front of where they've built the camp. 'Now it's unnerving going down there. There are fears the prices of properties will depreciate, and whereas it was all fields it's not any more. In the past, that plot has been rented out and horses kept there. It annoys me that the council can't put a stop to what's going on more quickly. 'Another resident was talking to one of the travellers in the Co-op in the village who told him the reason they bought the land was because they were sick of being moved on from one car park to another.' Villagers are angry that, while strict planning controls apply to them, the travellers appear to be able to 'get away with anything' by flouting the rules. Around 120 people attended a meeting with local councillors in the village hall on Monday. They pointed to a recent planning decision which is available to read on the council's website. The proposal was to convert a barn in a field opposite where the traveller camp now is, and also on Green Belt, into three dwellings. It was refused because the design of the proposed buildings 'would not adequately reflect the agricultural character of the area' and would be contrary to the Warrington Local Plan. When the Mail visited the traveller camp on Wednesday – in the week when thousands of travellers and gipsies were heading for the annual Appleby Horse Fair in Cumbria – the diggers and trucks had long since departed and the site was occupied instead by 13 caravans, six vans and two cars. Aerial photographs also showed that behind the perimeter fence, the plot is being partitioned into individual, smaller plots. An attempt to give the travellers the opportunity to comment was gruffly rebuffed and they closed the front gate. Later that day, they put a metal gate up across the dirt track where Miss Saunders likes to walk her dog. Mr Mann, the councillor, said the track is a public right of way and he has contacted the council's public rights of way officer. Mr Mann has been at the forefront of raising residents' concerns about the camp with the Labour-run council after receiving 'hundreds' of emails. Scottish Power, which supplies electricity to the area and investigates alleged unauthorised attempts to tap into the mains supply, had also been informed, he says. 'As a member of the community myself, I'm dismayed at what happened and how it happened – and would hope everyone involved would get due permissions in order to change the use of their property.' Nigel Catlow, vice chairman of Burtonwood and Westbrook Parish Council, has described it as a 'very serious and fast-moving issue'. In a letter to the council, he wrote: 'The landowners appear to be in serious breach, making the most of the Bank Holiday and the council being on a long weekend. 'This is of great concern to many residents and council taxpayers in Burtonwood and the wider area of Warrington West.' For its part, Warrington Borough Council says it is monitoring the situation and the public are free to express their comments once a valid retrospective planning application is received. 'We appreciate there may be strong feeling within the community in relation to the works undertaken and, subsequently, to any related planning application,' says a spokesman. 'Any representation should be made in writing to the council, based on the details submitted within a valid application, so that they can be considered in the decision-making process. 'In the meantime, we will continue to monitor and investigate the situation on-site.' For the time-being – and probably months and months to come – it seems the unlucky residents of Burtonwood are likely to be stuck with the unwanted new arrivals.
