Celeste has repeated that she thought it was too early to discharge Valdo after his first admission.

She said: "When I looked at him - you look beyond, you don't just look at them.

"I know my son. He doesn't look right.

"But I haven't got power to do anything else besides agreeing with the admission. That was the only power I had."

Celeste had been concerned upon Valdo's second admission that he was relapsing.

She said during a meeting, she queried the option of Valdo having a depot - a slow-release, injectable medication.

Valdo said he did not believe he needed a depot at that stage. Celeste said, being on the phone, it was difficult to see how hard Valdo was being pressed by doctors on the option of taking a depot.

After Valdo's second admission to Highbury Hospital, Seedat told him he would "end up killing someone", Langdale said.

The consultant psychiatrist observed no insight or remorse, she added.

Celeste said she was not aware of this.

She said: "That kind of observation, I think I should at least have a right to know that, so I will know how to support him better.

"If you don't have a picture, you don't understand, you're just in the dark."

Celeste, who was calling daily, said there was no discussion of depot medication with her during her son's second stay in hospital.

She added it was a "contradiction" that information about her son could not be shared, but that she was also being told he did not have capacity.

Celeste thought her son would be in hospital for much longer, perhaps six months, on his second admission to Highbury Hospital.

She was "relieved" and said she thought they would know more about his medication and diagnosis.

Celeste told the inquiry she thought "everything will be in place".

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After Valdo was discharged from his first admission, Celeste said she regularly called him to check he took his medication.

On 11 July, she called the mental health crisis team, concerned about Valdo.

She said: "On that particular day, I think I was speaking to Valdo and he wasn't making much sense and his speech was like slow, and that was quite worrying me because it was like how he was for the first admission."

Celeste called the crisis team and asked about his medication but was told his care could not be discussed without his consent.

On 13 July, Celeste was informed Valdo had been, once again, trying to break into premises at Brook Court.

She said: "This is the red flag I was talking about on 11 July when I phoned the crisis team.

"That’s why I was quite upset because I didn't see Valdo, but I know something wasn't right because of our conversation.

"So I phoned the services and they just didn't do anything about it until he was in crisis."

The plan upon discharge was that Valdo had to continue medication for six to nine months and that he would have follow-up from the mental health crisis team in Nottingham.

There had been a planned three-day follow-up for 18 June, however the crisis team did not visit and called Valdo instead.

Celeste emailed Seedat raising concerns.

She told the inquiry she did not agree with the discharge and then the plan was "broken straight away".

Asked if she ever received a reply directly from Seedat, she said if it was not in the bundle of evidence to the inquiry, then she did not.

The inquiry heard Celeste stayed with Valdo in Nottingham for two or three nights after he was discharged.

Celeste asked if there was a care plan in place for her son in the community, and if there was a specific diagnosis for him.

She was told there was not a diagnosis as Seedat "didn't want to put a label on it".

She said: "You're dealing with someone with a mental illness as a family, diagnosis is very important because that way you'll be able to help the person better."

Celeste planned to travel to Nottingham on the day of Valdo's discharge from Highbury Hospital to collect him.

Ahead of this, Langdale said Valdo's notes stated he was "going towards an illness" but Celeste said: "He never told me what it was."

When doctors were discussing discharging Valdo following his first admission, Celeste said she believed it was too early.

She said she could not recall how she found out about her son being discharged, but she had asked to speak to the consultant. She did not receive a call back, the inquiry heard.

Upon his discharge, it was being discussed where Valdo might go.

Birmingham was being considered, but Celeste said she did not want him to "run away" to the city because he could not get "input from mental health".

During a meeting on 5 June between Valdo's family and mental health services, Valdo's father told doctors that his own father - the killer's grandfather - had mental health difficulties.

Valdo's father said in that meeting that he was not sure whether his father had symptoms of psychosis.

He recalled that, while going to school in the city away from home, he was told by a relative that his father was "having problems in the head".

Celeste agreed that the family were "thinking hard" about what Valdo might be going through and whether this was relevant to his situation.

Celeste wanted a formal diagnosis, but Dr Faizal Seedat told her he would not be able to provide one, as it was the first instance of ill mental health.

She said: "He went on to explain that some people will have this episode once, and then they many never have it in their life, so you can't give a diagnosis from that."

Celeste "wanted to know how long the medication is supposed to be" and Seedat told her that if Valdo stopped taking it too soon, he would "probably become unwell again".

She told the inquiry that Seedat said if there were issues with his medication, they could move him on to depot.

Celeste added: "I didn't want it to come to police, so I asked him if the medication doesn't work, is there anything else?"

The hospital notes, Rachel Langdale KC outlines, also said Valdo did not wish to take any medication and instead "power through without".

Celeste said: "At this time, I didn't know his attitude to medication."

It is also logged that he had been "play fighting" with another patient, which Celeste said she was not aware of.

Concerns were raised about Valdo returning to his university accommodation.

Doctors and the university felt he should not return to Nottingham and instead should move to his family's home in Wales, saying there is "no need" to be in the city.

But notes from his hospital stay state he did not wish to go to Wales, instead saying he intended to move to Birmingham.

Valdo was discharged in June and the inquiry has previously heard he moved back to his student accommodation.

On the night of 24 May 2020, Valdo broke into a woman's flat in Brook Court, Radford in Nottingham, prompting her to flee from a window. She fell and broke her spine.

That incident led to Valdo's first hospital admission.

Celeste told the inquiry she was not given details of that incident.

The inquiry heard she was given a "brief account of the events leading to admission and damage to the door" on 1 June.

"The only thing I can recall them telling me is that the lady who jumped out the window had to have surgery and then I wanted to know what happened, but they told me it was confidential so they can't discuss," Celeste said.

A meeting was held on the ward on 3 June about preparing to discharge Valdo, but Celeste said she was not told about that.

She said she expected that if her son was not well enough, his section could be "extended".

On one occasion, Celeste was told by Seedat that her son had been searching in a linen cupboard on the ward "as he thought there was a woman screaming in it".

Celeste is asked by Langdale if, with hindsight, the pressure of university was putting "undue pressure" on Valdo.

Celeste said: "I would say so, yes."

The inquiry has heard she had access to her son's university emails while he was in hospital and used them to ask for an extension for his exams.

She also used his emails to contact student support services for him.

Celeste told the inquiry she believed texts from Valdo to her and the rest of their family saying "I love you" were "out of character".

She said Valdo would send the messages at the same time.

Asked if she was concerned about self-harm, she said that, looking back, it might have been a sign or "maybe goodbye".

At a ward round during his first admission, Valdo's inpatient consultant Dr Faizal Seedat noted the likely cause of his episode of psychosis was sleep deprivation or stress.

Celeste told the inquiry Valdo used to work nights before he started at university.

She said he worked in Wales doing night shifts before starting an "access course" in Birmingham, while continuing to work night shifts at a warehouse on weekends.

The messages in Elias's dossier have since been detailed to the inquiry, meaning Celeste has learned what her son had said.

Langdale is outlining some of them - Valdo not sleeping, feeling as though he was being spied on, having the "darkest thoughts" and wanting to "harm, permanently".

Celeste said: "I was going through a really hard time myself, and my son being unwell, Elias, protecting me, didn't mention that."

She added that she would not have know what the reference to "red rum" in his messaging would have meant.

The inquiry has heard Elias, Valdo's younger brother, had created a journal of messages between him and the killer to give to his inpatient doctors.

Valdo had expressed thoughts of violence and murder, but Celeste has told the inquiry she did not read it.

"Everything was happening so fast and my focus was on Valdo and [for] that journal to be sent to his treating team so they can figure out what is going on.

"I thought it was important, so I sent it to the doctor. I didn't read it, no," she said.

She said she never heard back from the doctors about that document and thought it was "nothing useful".

Celeste called police about her son after his second arrest, and the inquiry heard from Langdale that she was "irate" about a lack of information.

Celeste said she was later told a mental health assessment would be carried out.

She spent a night in the car in Nottingham, and the following night, Elias managed to arrange a place for her to stay over the phone so she could stay in the city while her son was being assessed.

The family travelled to Nottingham, while a mental health crisis team travelled to Valdo's home.

Both arrived at the same time.

Celeste said: "When we arrived there, we tried to get to Valdo's apartment, but we couldn't because there's a gate.

"While we were trying, I phoned Valdo, no answer. I didn't know what was going on."

Valdo had been released back to his home, and then arrested again by police.

Notes from the time showed Celeste said she stated she would like her son to be taken to hospital "as there is a risk to others in his current mental state", said inquiry counsel Rachel Langdale.

Celeste said: "I wanted him to go to hospital. I didn't understand the extent of the risk."

Valdo was arrested in May 2020 after trying to break into a neighbour's flat.

This led to his first admission to Highbury Hospital in Nottingham.

Celeste said: "When they called to say 'your son's been arrested for burglary', I said 'he's 28 years old, how can he be arrested for burglary? He's never done anything like that. That's out of character'."

Celeste said she spoke to police at this point about her son's mental health.

She said: "I said 'I think he's had an episode of psychosis, he's been hearing voices'.

"I said 'what are you going to do?'

"They said he was going to have an assessment and then go home. I asked if there was any way you can keep him as it's going to take four or five hours to get to Nottingham.

"At this point there was a total lockdown in the country, you weren't supposed to even travel."

Celeste said she was told they would not be able to keep Valdo and he was to be sent home with someone attending his home to give him medicine.