A Fundamental Misunderstanding...

Barnaby's mum Emma, who spoke on behalf of all three families, told The Mirror: 'We believe what the produced is a very imbalanced documentary – it's shameful, cold, ill-judged, arrogant and thoughtless.' She said watching the BBC’s treatment of the case had made their trauma even worse. The BBC only informed them about the show after they had already filmed it and a fortnight before it was due to be broadcast. Emma also claims that none of the victims families were considered or consulted at any point to be told the show was being made.

I see where this bafflement stems from - you consider yourselves, the relatives of those murdered by a mental patient - as the victims of this incident, as everyone else does. 

But this is a BBC documentary, and to them, the murderous mental patient and his relatives are the real victims.

They only found out the killers family were being interviewed on camera when they watched the show.

The families are also concerned over claims from Calocane's family that they did not know of his mental health issues until after the stabbings and are demanding to know why BBC Panorama editors chose not to mention the fact that his mother was an NHS nurse.

We all know why, don't we, Reader? 

The families tried to reach out to the show's editors to express their concerns but say the responses they got were 'cold' and 'dismissive', forcing them to lodge a formal complaint which has been escalated to the corporation’s highest 'stage two' level and they are now awaiting a response.

They were too busy dealing with the 'Strictly' kerfuffle, clearly...