The bright and brilliant athletes killed in Nottingham

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Barnaby Webber and Grace Kumar

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Barnaby Webber and Grace Kumar were killed successful the attacks successful Nottingham

By Elizabeth Joyce

BBC News

Grace Kumar and Barnaby Webber were 2 talented young athletes who mislaid their lives successful the fearfulness and chaos of the Nottingham attacks.

Nineteen-year-old Grace was a subordinate of the England U16 and U18 hockey squads, arsenic good arsenic playing for Southgate Hockey Club and Woodford Wells Cricket Club successful London. Her team-mates said she was "fun, affable and brilliant".

Barnaby, besides 19, was a "key member" of Bishops Hull Cricket Club and had been selected for his assemblage team. His household said helium was a "beautiful, brilliant, agleam young man".

Tributes person been pouring successful for the University of Nottingham students.

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Barnaby Webber's household said they were "enormously proud" of his achievements

Barnaby was from Taunton, Somerset. His parents David and Emma Webber and younger member Charlie said helium was "at the commencement of his travel into adulthood and was processing into a fantastic young man".

"Complete devastation is not capable to picture our symptom and nonaccomplishment astatine the senseless execution of our son," they said.

"Barnaby Philip John Webber was a beautiful, brilliant, agleam young man, with everything successful beingness to look guardant to.

"A talented and passionate cricketer, who was implicit the satellite to person made enactment to his assemblage cricket team.

"As parents we are enormously arrogant of everything helium achieved and each the plans helium had made.

"His member is bereft beyond belief, and astatine this clip we inquire for privateness arsenic a household to beryllium allowed clip to process and grieve."

Ex-England cricket skipper Michael Vaughan besides paid tribute to Barnaby, saying helium was a "young cricketer gone acold excessively soon".

Taunton-based Bishops Hull Cricket Club person asked radical to laic flowers and wage their respects to their "dear friend" astatine the ground.

'Kind and engaging character'

Barnaby was a erstwhile Taunton School pupil.

Staff and students determination said they had been "heartbroken by the recent, tragic news"

"Barnaby joined america successful the nursery and studied present each the mode done to the extremity of the sixth form, leaving conscionable past year," the schoolhouse said.

"In his agelong relation with the school, helium touched the lives of galore staff, pupils and parents and his nonaccomplishment volition beryllium precise hard to travel to presumption with. He was a much-loved, benignant and engaging character.

"That a young antheral of specified committedness should suffer his beingness successful these circumstances is utterly devastating.

"We nonstop our emotion and deepest condolences to his family. We proceed to bash each we tin to enactment them and each successful our assemblage affected by these events.

"When the clip comes, we volition find a fitting mode successful which to retrieve Barnaby and his peculiar publication to our school."

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"Fun, affable and brilliant" Grace Kumar for Southgate Hockey Club

Grace, besides known arsenic Grace O'Malley Kumar, excelled successful cricket and hockey.

England Hockey said it was "deeply saddened" by her death, portion Southgate Hockey Club described her arsenic a "huge endowment and much-loved member" of the U18s and W1s.

The London-based squad tweeted: "We are shocked and devastated by the news, our thoughts and sincere condolences are with Grace's family, friends and teammates."

Woodford Wells Cricket Club successful London described her arsenic "fun, affable and brilliant".

The nine said she was a erstwhile Wells Baby Belles captain, adding she was a "fiercely competitive, talented and dedicated cricketer and hockey player".

A antheral successful his 50s was besides killed successful the weapon and van attacks that happened successful Nottingham successful the aboriginal hours of Tuesday. He has not been named astatine this stage.

Nottinghamshire Police said a 31-year-old antheral was Tasered and arrested connected suspicion of murder. He remains successful custody.

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