ITV Good Morning Britain star delivers ‘upsetting’ news minutes into live show

Good Morning Britain star Ranvir Singh delivered the most recent news headlines on Tuesday as Susanna Reid and Ed Balls hosted the programme

A Good Morning Britain star shared a heartbreaking news replace simply minutes into the live show.

Tuesday’s (February 24) version of the hit ITV programme was hosted by Susanna Reid and Ed Balls, with the pair delivering the largest headlines from throughout the UK and across the world.

They had been joined within the studio by Alex Beresford, who introduced common climate forecasts, whereas Ranvir Singh dealt with the remainder of the day’s news.

Later within the show, Ranvir shared updates from the ongoing inquiry into the 2023 Nottingham attacks, which left three individuals useless.

“[It’s been revealed] that the killer was released by mental health workers considering the overrepresentation of black men in detention. Valdo Calocane went on to take the lives of students Barnaby Webber and Grace O’Malley-Kumar, and 65-year-old Ian Coates,” Ranvir shared.

“Today, their families will attend the hearing as it continues in central London… Already there have been some very upsetting details as one might expect, but some shocking ones too.”

Correspondent Ashna Hurynag spoke live from central London, the place she defined: “In 2023, we know that the lives of those three people were taken in the most brutal attacks in Nottingham. But yesterday, in the first day of the inquiry, we heard about an incident that unfolded three years before that incident took place.

“In May 2020, the killer, Valdo Calocane, was residing himself as a University of Nottingham pupil when he was experiencing a interval of psychosis. He started to kick down the door of a girl, who was residing alone in her flat.

“She was so scared that she jumped out of her first floor window, damaging her spine in the process.”

The reporter went on: “But when mental health doctors and psychiatrists came to look at Calocane and where he should go from there, even though they were considering sectioning him, they decided not to do that based on research they had gathered, and research looking at the fact that there had been an overrepresentation of black men in custody.”

This led them to not take that motion, three years earlier than the horrific assaults occurred in Nottingham. The households of the victims have stated that they’re going to be attending the inquiry each single day, up till June.

Speaking yesterday, Ian Coates’ son, James, instructed reporters: “My last little bit of hope going into this inquiry is that we’re going to get truth, proper real answers, accountability and most importantly, some changes. There has to be systematic changes.”

Ashna concluded: “The families are convinced that it was a catalogue of failings, as they call it, by authorities that led to their loved one’s deaths. The inquiry will unpick the actions of numerous authorities, including the police.”

Good Morning Britain airs weekdays on ITV1 and ITVX at 6am

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