Grace O'Malley Kumar's parents say 'failure' is to blame for Hainault rampage ... trends now

The parents of knife victim Grace O'Malley Kumar have said 'failures' are to blame for the Hainault rampage after a fourteen-year-old boy who went to the same school as their daughter was stabbed to death. 

The chaos in Hainault, London, yesterday saw a man armed with a sword go on the rampage, killing Daniel Anjorin and injuring two other members of the public as well as two police officers.

Daniel went to the £24,990-a-year Bancroft's private school in Woodford Green, where Miss O'Malley-Kumar - who was killed last June - was also a former student.

Grace, 19, was killed in a random knife attack by paranoid schizophrenic Valdo Calocane, alongside her university friend Barnaby Webber. 65-year-old caretaker Ian Coates was also killed. 

Grace's father Dr Sanjoy Kumar said that when crimes such as stabbings happen on UK streets, it is because of a 'failure somewhere along the line'. 

'But I can almost assure you, that when something like this happens on our streets, it is because of a failure somewhere along the line,' he said. 

'What we must all do as a nation really is we must look at the failures and get them right. 

'Because if we don't, these things are going to carry on happening and what seems to the public at the moment is that there is nothing happening about the failures.' 

Police previously admitted they 'should have done more' to stop killer Calocane before he went on the stabbing rampage that killed the two students and Mr Coates. 

Calocane, a graduate engineering student, was suffering from paranoid schizophrenia when he 'deliberately and mercilessly' stabbed Barnaby, Grace and Ian in the early hours of the morning last June. 

Nottingham Crown Court heard from psychiatrists who discussed Calocane's mental state, with one telling the packed courtroom the 32-year-old heard voices telling him he needed to kill people or his family would be hurt. 

Grace's father added: 'We hear about terrible tragedies every day, but do you hear a positive step being taken by people in positions of power or the government - you don't. 

'And that's really disappointing for people like us, who are on the street, we are basic onlookers, we are like ordinary families out there who are asking for security in the country, and it just seems to me that positive change is so long overdue.  

'Why do these failures happen? We have to hold people who are treating these people who commit crimes responsible for their treatment, and they have to actually answer some very, very tough questions in my view, as to why is it that a patient who is under their care, who they are the responsible medical officer for, are committing these crimes.' 

Details of the horror in Hainault yesterday continued to emerge this morning as it was also revealed that the boy - named locally as Daniel – attended the same school where Nottingham stabbing victim Grace O'Malley-Kumar was a pupil.

Daniel went to the £24,990-a-year Bancroft's private school in Woodford Green, where Miss O'Malley-Kumar - who was killed last June - was also a former student.

The chaos in Hainault saw a man armed with a sword go on the rampage, killing Daniel and injuring two other members of the public as well as two police officers.

Neighbours recalling the scenes yesterday morning said the attacker first spoke to a woman, asking her to confirm his location, before she saw the weapon and fled. She tried to warn Daniel, who is said to be a Nigerian boy, but it was too late.

Witness Aiste Dabasinskaaite told ITV of the moment she saw a man fatally stab the teenager. She said the man asked her for the address of the area they were in, then put his foot on her foot so she 'couldn't back off'.

She said: 'Once I told the address, he sort of moved closer towards me, he put his foot on my foot so I couldn't back off and then that's when he like drew out the sword. It was arm's length. It was honestly petrifying. I just ran down the road, I didn't even look back to see if he was chasing me.'

Ms Dabasinskaaite said she tried to warn the teenager, adding: 'My instinct was to shout and wave at him, which is what me and another neighbour did but because he had just his headphones on I don't think he heard either of us. 

'It was sort of a moment where we just went from shouting to just blankness, just felt empty. You wouldn't think that would happen on your doorstep, you know.'

Daniel's mother works at Holy Family Catholic School, which published a statement on its website addressed to parents and carers that said: 'It is with great sadness that I share with you the news of the death of the child of one of our staff members.

'Mrs Anjorin's son was taken from this life suddenly this morning on his way to school. Please keep Mrs Anjorin, her husband and their other children in your prayers.'

The O'Malley-Kumar family are from Woodford Green, which is about three miles away from Hainault, and offered their support to the Anjorin family today.

Speaking on ITV'S Good Morning Britain (GMB) today, Miss O'Malley-Kumar's parents Sinead O'Malley and Dr Sanjoy Kumar offered to meet the boy's family and said they 'empathised' with them following yesterday's attack.

It had chilling echoes of their daughter's murder 11 months ago – with both incidents seeing suspects go on a knife-wielding rampage and crash a van, before being tasered by police and arrested.

Mrs O'Malley said: 'I don't think there's anything that anybody can say to alleviate their heart and their pain so we wouldn't try to minimise that, but all we can do is empathise and hope they will heal with time.'

Her daughter was

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