EXCLUSIVE: Ilsadin Skenderaj viewed 12 videos with no policing purpose, including of the victims of the Nottingham attacks being treated by medics and being placed in body bags
The family of a Nottingham attack victim is horrified by police handling of an officer who accessed distressing bodycam footage of their dead child.
Emma Webber, mother of Barnaby who was killed by Valdo Calocane, feels betrayed after discovering the rogue officer was allowed to quietly quit but was told he had been fired.
Nottingham Police’s deputy chief constable Steve Cooper said Ilsadin Skenderaj had been sacked following a misconduct hearing for looking at the footage with policing purpose.
This was repeated by then-Chief Constable Kate Meynell in a letter to the families of Barnaby and Grace O’Malley Kumar, also fatally stabbed by Calocane in June 2023.
But Skenderaj was not dismissed and voluntarily stepped down that September, before the misconduct hearing took place in December.
At home and off duty, Skenderaj viewed 12 separate recordings including of paramedics providing medical assistance to Barnaby and Grace, both aged 19, and placing both in body bags. He was not working on the case.
Ms Webber said: “Nottinghamshire Police failed us completely over Special Constable Ilsadin Skenderaj. He watched in detail 12 body-worn videos of my son and his friend being treated – the most private, harrowing moments of their final minutes. The chief constable looked us in the eye and said he had faced disciplinary action and been sacked.
“He [Skenderaj] resigned before any proper consequences could be imposed. They covered it up and kept us in the dark about how extensive the misconduct really was until the public inquiry dragged the truth out.
“It is utterly heartbreaking that such a profound betrayal of trust has been allowed to pass with zero real accountability.”
University students Barnaby and Grace were walking home from a night out when they were stabbed to death by paranoid schizophrenic Valdo Calocane, who also killed school caretaker Ian Coates, 65, then drove into pedestrians. He is serving an indefinite hospital order.
Skenderaj, who appears to have run a property lettings firm alongside his special constable role, also watched footage from Calocane’s arrest and inside an ambulance. Despite his actions, officers failed to seize his devices and he was allowed to decline a police interview.
Police staff often have access to evidence systems as part of their role, even if they are not assigned to an investigation.
But they are expected to only access information for a legitimate policing purpose. Special constables are part-time, unpaid, volunteer officers. The inquiry into the attacks heard Nottinghamshire Police was “reluctant” to investigate how many times staff inappropriately accessed images and footage from that fateful day.
A Nottinghamshire Police spokesman said: “The officer resigned ahead of a gross misconduct hearing, which found him guilty in his absence. He therefore would have been dismissed had he not resigned. He was also placed on the police barred list.”