Triple murderer Valdo Calocane was not sectioned after he displayed shocking violence because NHS staff feared there were too many “young black males in detention”. Let that sink in for a moment. The paranoid schizophrenic went on to brutally kill three random people in Nottingham – a tragic example of how “woke” ideology is endangering us all. As revealed in an official inquiry this week, Calocane was arrested for criminal damage after attempting to kick down a neighbour’s door in a terrifying attack in 2020, but released in order to be treated in the community.

Rachel Langdale KC, counsel to the inquiry, said mental health workers and doctors had been ‘leaning towards’ sectioning Calocane, who is originally from Guinea-Bissau in west Africa, but “the team of professionals considered the research evidence that shows over-representation of young black males in detention”. They even failed to administer anti-psychotic medication because Calocane did not like needles and NHS staff ”felt a pressure to avoid restrictive practice because of his ethnicity”.

The inquiry heard police had multiple dealings with Calocane – including his visiting MI5 headquarters and taking a hammer into a hospital – as his mental health deteriorated. Concerns were also raised that he was not taking medication properly.

Indeed, a doctor warned in July 2020 that Calocane “will end up killing someone”. Two weeks later he was released again into the community. What is especially troubling is that ignoring reality because of a perceived systemic racism is now pervasive throughout our society and public sector and it is putting us all in danger. A security guard at the Manchester Arena failed to challenge Islamist suicide bomber Salman Abedi in 2020 because he did not want to be accused of racial profiling.

“I did not want people to think I am stereotyping him because of his race,” he told an inquiry. “I was scared of being wrong and being branded a racist if I got it wrong and would have got into trouble.”

If the lone Muslim with a backpack had been challenged earlier, some of the 22 young people and parents murdered by him might still be alive. Time and again, we’ve heard similar excuses from police, care workers and officialdom as white women and children were sexually abused by primarily Muslim rape gangs over long periods of time throughout the UK.

Something very odd has happened in Britain over the last two decades. Fear of being branded a racist is now apparently worse than putting us all at risk of death and violence by rightly identifying dangerous people.

New Labour began this process by encouraging “woke” to be the dominant philosophy in our public services. Police, health and care workers have all been subjected to endless courses on anti-racism which have discouraged them from using their natural instincts and experience to identify danger, instead erring on the side of state-sanctioned caution.

The result of this Left-wing establishment brain-washing has been many needless deaths of white Britons sacrificed on the altar of “woke”. Until recently, it was even deemed racist to complain about high levels of immigration and yet our prisons testify to the threat. Between 2021 and 2023, foreign nationals were convicted of sexual offences at a rate 71% higher than that of the British population, 69% for drug-related crime, 25% for theft, and 39% for all types of crime. The top five nationalities for sexual offences were Afghanistan, Eritrea, Namibia, Chad, and Moldova.

Even at his trial, Valdo Calocane’s mental illness meant he was convicted of manslaughter rather than murder and he was given an indefinite hospital order. And yet he was sane enough to watch videos of mass killings on his phone and research legal and police powers. The attorney general echoed public sentiment by protesting it was unduly lenient but the sentence was upheld on appeal.

The truth of the dangers we all face must not be hidden from us by a public sector more concerned about losing their jobs because they fall foul of anti-racist dogma. The pendulum has swung too far in this direction. Public safety should be the uppermost concern when any of these professionals are making decisions that could have dreadful outcomes if they get it wrong. And if they are responsible for fatal errors, they should be named and shamed.

Both Labour and the Tories are to blame for allowing “woke” to run wild in our care services. Protection of the public is far more important than pursuing so-called social justice when the perverse results of this are deaths on our streets. The three tragic victims of the Nottingham murderer – Barnaby Webber, Grace O’Malley-Kumar and Ian Coates – deserve this to be their legacy.