The mother of murdered student Barnaby Webber has said she will fight to overturn indefinite hospital orders rather than prison sentences for serious crimes.
Emma Webber said the “lighter sentencing” given to Munawar Hussain, who attacked an M&S store manager in Burnley with a knife, was “wrong”.
Speaking on GB News, Emma Webber said: “I'm no expert in the law, in medicine, or in the criminal justice system, but I'm fast learning that there are some major, major flaws within all of those that unfortunately have culminated in the loss of my son, Grace, and Ian.
“A hospital order is just that: it's sending somebody as a patient to a hospital for treatment. There's no element of that which is penal, which is a punishment.
“So Calocane has manipulated and managed to use his mental illness, which we have never disputed, that he does have mental illness. Who would do something like this in their right mind? Nobody would.
“It's not an act of retaliation or an accident or a moment in time. This was thoroughly planned, the same as [Munawar Hussain].
“It's so wrong that this lighter sentencing, with no punishment, can be handed down, and it happens time and time again.
“And indefinite doesn't mean indefinite. It means almost anything but that. 87% of indefinite hospital orders were out within 10 years, and 98% within 20.
“So pretty much, you're going to be out. Our case is sadly still very high profile in the public. But I guess the upside of that is that all of the misleading information, all of the failures, have been brought to the form.
“We're continuing to challenge all of them, which is why we'll end up with a public inquiry, and that's already been confirmed. And we need to ensure it's a statutory judge led one so that people that gave evidence which led to this outcome are held to account.
“We know for a fact Calocane is in the high secure unit. I was shocked when I read the piece about Munawar Hussain. He was actually put in a medium secure unit when he then went on to attack the nurse.
“That is just horrific to even think about. But the reason Calocane, who is a murderer, an ill murderer, is in the hospital, is because his diagnosis was said to be so severe, that he was treatment resistant. There was an awful lot of sway put on this in the sentencing hearing from the eminent psychiatrist who was representing the CPS.
“We now know thanks to his brother, who so kindly said at the end of Panorama, he's got his brother back now, because he's responding to treatment, and he's actually responding to the treatment that he has been prescribed all along.
“So I guess Justice Lord Turner had no choice but to do this. But it's utterly wrong, and it has to be looked at.
“And if it's the last thing I do on this earth, I will stop it happening again, if there's any way I can. If we can overturn this and get accountability for Calocane and those who did so wrong, then we will.”
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