Nottingham triple killer and other criminals in secure hospitals are to lose £800-a-month benefits after victims' families campaigned

Valdo Calocane has been collecting universal credit while receiving NHS psychiatric treatment, through a loophole known as 'double provision'. Regulations laid in Parliament on Tuesday aim to close it for killers and sex offenders detained in hospital. The change is expected to save tens of millions of pounds a year. It will not take effect until early next year, and only after MPs approve it.

Calocane killed Barnaby Webber, Grace O'Malley-Kumar and Ian Coates in Nottingham in 2023.

Barnaby's mother Emma Webber called the move a 'step in the right direction' after years of campaigning.

Ministers say the change will 'put fairness back at the heart of the welfare system'.