That concludes our live coverage of the Nottingham Inquiry on Thursday.

For a round-up of today's evidence, read our story here.

Speaking to the inquiry today, the mother of triple killer Valdo Calocane described seeing her son for the final time before the Nottingham attacks, on a trip to Birmingham in November 2022.

She told the hearing: "It would break my heart every time I looked at him."

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• The last time Celeste saw her son before his fatal attacks was in November 2022, when he had "a kind of emptiness" in him, she said
• Calocane had tried on a number of occasions to share a large computer file of documents with his family
• On the day of the attacks, Elias messaged Celeste after a phone call from the killer
• Celeste spoke about her fears that her son would take his own life
• Celeste was questioned why she did not tell mental health services about her son turning up at the family home in July 2021
• In an emotional address to close her evidence, Celeste said the system is "broken"

If you'd like to find out about more of the evidence heard in the Nottingham Inquiry so far, you can get up to speed with the latest as part of our Need to Know series.

Celeste Calocane has finished her testimony to the inquiry, and the evidence has concluded for the day.

Celeste, addressing the inquiry's chair, said: "I'm just here to help the chair to bring the changes so no-one has to go through what happened.

"You have to try as a family to navigate those services you don't understand, you don't know what's happening with your relative and you don't understand the diagnosis of the person.

"You don't have the information that you need because everything is so fragmented.

"No brother or mother should be left alone in that situation to try to navigate the service. I think somebody should sit and explain to you, 'this is the diagnosis, this is what you need to know, this is what you have to look at'.

"The system is so broken.

"No-one should have to go to bed thinking I'm going to have a phone call tomorrow that something happened to my loved one.

"When it gets to crisis, it's too late."

Straw asks what Valdo would say when asked by Celeste about his mental health in mid-2022.

She said: "If I ask, he just says 'it's OK'.

"If asked about his medication, he would always tell me he's taking his medication, it's OK."

Straw then asked Celeste about a statement she gave to police at the time of his third admission to hospital, that he was not at risk of randomly attacking people.

Calocane had been detained after an attack on a police officer.

She said: "Valdo didn't just go out of his way and just start attacking people.

"The police was part of his paranoia, and then they came in to take him where he didn't want to go."

Adam Straw KC, who is representing the Calocane family, is asking Celeste about her trip to Nottingham in September 2021.

She said she tried to visit Calocane in hospital but "wasn't able to do so".

She said: "Just to try even to get through to the ward to speak to someone, it was difficult.

"I couldn't book an appointment or speak to the treating clinician."

"You had a role to play," added Cartwright.

Celeste replied: "That's the role I've been playing, but nothing seems to happen."

Representing the survivors of the attacks - Wayne Birkett, Sharon Miller and Marcin Gawronski - Sophie Cartwright KC asks Celeste about her son driving four and a half hours to Wales in July 2021.

Calocane turned up at the family home but then refused to go inside, the inquiry heard earlier today.

Cartwright said at the time he believed MI5 could use his vision like a camera, using a technology called remote neural monitoring.

Celeste said he wasn't "disorganised" like he previously had been in episodes of psychosis, and added: "I didn't know what I was dealing with."

Asked why she did not inform mental health services about the incident, Celeste said: "I've already been reporting to the mental health service before we got to this point, and then they come back and reassure me and say it's fine.

"Any mother, you want the best for your child."

Following Valdo's sentencing in 2024, a series of failings emerged by authorities, including the police and mental health services - both of which the killer was known to - prompting calls for a statutory inquiry.

A statutory inquiry means witnesses who are called forward are legally compelled to give evidence under oath.

The Nottingham Inquiry, which began hearing evidence on 23 February this year, is examining the lead-up to the attacks, the investigation that followed and the aftermath.

It is being chaired by retired senior judge Deborah Taylor KC - who will listen to all the evidence and draw up her findings as part of a final report.

You can read more about how the inquiry works here.

Celeste has been questioned about the text messages exchanged between her and Elias on the morning of the Nottingham attacks.

Moloney recalled that Celeste said she thought Valdo had taken his own life, and asked why she did not leave work and instead told Elias she would call him back later.

"Looking back, maybe that's what I should have done, but I didn't do that because this is something I've been living with for the last three years," she said.

Moloney has asked about the journal of messages that Elias compiled for doctors to show Valdo's state of mind in the lead-up to his hospital admission in May 2020.

Celeste said Elias had spoken to her about Valdo hearing voices.

She told Moloney that Elias did not share that Valdo might have wanted to kill himself.

"For my protection, he chose not to tell me," she said.

Celeste is now being cross-examined, with Tim Moloney KC, representing the bereaved families, asking whether she had concerns that Valdo might take his own life between 2020 and 2023.

She said: "Since Valdo's mental illness, my phone is always on. I always answer my phone.

"That was my biggest fear."

She said while her husband and son shared the same concerns, they never discussed it.

She added: "That's so heavy, let alone verbalising it."

She told the inquiry it was not until Elias said Valdo had told him "it's already done" on the morning of the attacks, that the family had the "boldness" to discuss their feelings.

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Celeste has explained that Valdo was not bullied at school.

Following the attacks, she gave a statement about Valdo's background in which she explained some possible adversity he might have faced when they moved.

It was recorded that Celeste said Valdo was bullied, however, she said that was not accurate.

"When I was speaking to [them] there was so much going on and [I] imagine that was the first person I thought was going to do something about Valdo's mental illness," she said.

She explained that, when the family moved to Portugal from Guinea-Bissau, Valdo had been told to "go back to his country" on a couple of occasions, but added it was not accurate to say he was bullied.

Celeste has been asked about her son's schooling and him being moved down two school years as a non-English speaker.

She said: "The only thing I would say affected him is making friends, because he was a little bit older.

"I wouldn't say I've seen him with a good friend. They would play football in the park but because he had Elias to speak to."

She told the inquiry Valdo did not want to go to church, but said that she and her husband wanted him to attend.

She added: "When you move to another country, when you don't know many people, that's a place to start.

"Valdo is not a person to argue with really, because he's very passive, he's also friendly, makes jokes.

"We just kind of left him."

She said she also set boundaries with Valdo as a child with watching TV late on a school night, and chores like washing dishes, and added that he did not want to go shopping with her.

Celeste said: "He was a teenager, at some point you have to let go, so I let go."

In the early hours of 13 June 2023 - the day of the Nottingham attacks - Elias, Valdo's younger brother, told Celeste they had spoken on the phone.

Valdo had said it would be the last time Elias would hear from him.

Elias called Celeste but she was at work on a night shift at the time and was unable to speak.

Elias explained the conversation with Valdo to his mum in a text exchange.

Elias asked Valdo if he was going to do something stupid and Valdo responded that "it is already done".

Celeste told the inquiry she believed Valdo must have already done something to "end his life".

Valdo did not go to the family home for Christmas in 2022, but he sent a large computer file of documents.

Celeste said: "It was quite a big document. I think I read one that he asked me to read first.

"It was beyond my understanding to try to understand that file because it was exactly what he's been telling me the last two years - the government, everyone was after him."

The last time Celeste saw her son Valdo before the fatal attacks was in November 2022.

She said: "I was on the way to Birmingham with my daughter for a concert.

"He phoned me and told me I wasn't supposed to go on my own to a concert and decided to come in."

The inquiry heard he was presentable, washed and clean, but that Celeste felt there was "a kind of emptiness" in him.

"Looking at him, he wasn't the same Valdo that I knew, that I raised in my house," she said.

"It wasn't my son that I knew, I just have to adjust to it."

Celeste Calocane is back on the stand after the lunch break.