‘I felt powerless’, triple killer’s brother sayspublished at 15:35 BST
Speaking about having less contact with Calocane, Elias said he was “convinced” his brother was going to take his own life.
Elias held back tears, as he said: “I guess I
can say more confidently looking back, but part of this was a defence mechanism on my part, of dealing with a loss ahead of time, if that makes sense.
“I thought that – and I explained this
to people – that every time mum called me during that period, I thought it was
going to be… um, yeah, I just found it really hard,” he said.
He added there was a “sense of hopelessness that comes with all of this”, and that he did not really know what was going on.
“So then it’s
either, we wait for something to happen, or I try to sort of convince VC to engage
with services or to try to reason with him.
“And that’s not possible so, it leads
to frustration and it leads to [a feeling] like none of this can ever be fixed,” he said.
Elias said he had to wait for something to happen and hoped it would not be that bad.
“I couldn’t
see another way out,” he said. “I just didn’t know what to do about it. I felt powerless.”
