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The grief-stricken mothers of stabbed teenagers Barnaby Webber and Grace O'Malley Kumar have told how they keep a light on for them at night.
University students Grace and Barney, both 19, were stabbed to death by paranoid schizophrenic Valdo Calocane while walking home from a night out in Nottingham just after 4am on June 13 last year.
Their mothers, Sinéad O'Malley-Kumar and Emma Webber, said they are 'intrinsically linked' by the tragedy which also saw the death of 65-year-old caretaker Ian Coates.
Speaking to The Times, Mrs O'Malley-Kumar said: 'I turn Grace's bedside light on at night-time. It's just inside the door.'
'I do too, every night,' Mrs Webber added. 'I always say, ''I'm not leaving you in the dark, Barney.'' '
Emma Webber (pictured), the mother of stab victim Barnaby Webber, 19, has told how she turns her son's bedroom light on at night
Sinéad O'Malley-Kumar (pictured), the mother of Grace O'Malley Kumar, 19, also keeps a light on for her daughter at night
Barnaby Webber, 19, (pictured) was stabbed to death by paranoid schizophrenic Valdo Calocane
Grace O'Malley Kumar, 19, (pictured) was also stabbed to death while heroically trying to save her friend Barnaby
Ian Coates was also killed by Calocane during the horrific ordeal on June 13 last year
'We're intrinsically linked, I suppose. Barney and Grace, they're together now. I suppose it's apt that we are.'
The two mothers also criticised the police and Crown Prosecution Service, saying they have 'lost faith in the justice system'.
Calocane, 32, was handed a hospital order for manslaughter by diminished responsibility after Nottingham Crown Court heard he had been diagnosed with paranoid
