Newspaper headlines: Michelle Mone's assets frozen and Nottingham 'victims failed'

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Many of the front pages on Friday focus on the grieving families of the three people stabbed to death in Nottingham last June.

"No justice," says the Metro's headline as the paper quotes the families of students Barnaby Webber and Grace O'Malley-Kumar, and school caretaker Ian Coates criticising the decision to send attacker Valdo Calocane to a high-security hospital, rather than prison, external.

"They were failed" is the headline on the front of the Daily Mirror as it pictures the two University of Nottingham students' last moments. Mr Webber's mother Emma Webber is in the tabloid quoted as saying the police have " blood on their hands"., external

Questions have been asked about why Calocane, who had been detained by mental health services four times and consistently showed he was unwilling, external to take antipsychotic medication, was free to walk the streets of Nottingham, the Times reports.

The Daily Telegraph leads with "He's got away with murder", quoting the words of James Coates, whose 65-year-old father was killed in the attacks last summer. The paper adds the attorney general is set to considering whether judges should review Calocane's sentence. ., external

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Ian Coates, Barnaby Webber and Grace O'Malley-Kumar died at the scene of the attacks

In other news, the Guardian reports the EU's plan to stockpile medicines could make record drug shortages in the UK worse, external. The EU is to switch to a system in which its 27 members work together to secure reliable supplies of 200 commonly used medications.

Baroness Mone's assets, including a Belgravia townhouse linked to the Conservative peer and her husband Douglas Barrowman, have been frozen or restrained by court order as the pair face a National Crime Agency investigation, external into alleged PPE fraud, the Financial Times reports.

Friday's Daily Mail leads with a couple who went on trial on Thursday accused of the manslaughter of their newborn daughter. The Old Bailey heard Constance Marten and Mark Gordon, external went on the run with their daughter, Victoria, last winter. Her body was found in a Lidl shopping bag, covered in rubbish, the court was told. The couple deny the charges.

The Daily Express says Chancellor Jeremy Hunt, is promising tax cuts hitting people's pay packets now are "just the start", external. The paper says he is" weighing up" further cuts, to income tax or another reduction in national insurance in his budget in March.

Finally, the i newspaper reports the Labour leader, Sir Keir Starmer, has been warned any promise to match Conservative tax plans, external would mean further cuts to public services.

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