Tributes have been paid to university student Barnaby Webber, who was one of the three people killed in a series of attacks that shook Nottingham.

The Nottingham University student was fatally stabbed before the attacker ‘stole’ another victim’s van to drive into others, police have said.

The family of the 19-year-old opened up about their ‘complete devastation’ at the ‘senseless murder of our son’, who was stabbed to death yesterday morning.

He was hailed as a ‘beautiful, brilliant, bright young man, with everything in life to look forward to’.

Parents David and Emma Webber, and his younger brother Charlie, said he was ‘at the start of his journey into adulthood and was developing into a wonderful young man’.

In a statement after their son’s death, the family, who are from Taunton, Somerset, added: ‘Complete devastation is not enough to describe our pain and loss at the senseless murder of our son.

‘Barnaby Philip John Webber was a beautiful, brilliant, bright young man, with everything in life to look forward to.

‘A talented and passionate cricketer, who was over the moon to have made selection to his university cricket team.

‘At 19 he was just at the start of his journey into adulthood and was developing into a wonderful young man.

‘As parents we are enormously proud of everything he achieved and all the plans he had made.

‘His brother is bereft beyond belief, and at this time we ask for privacy as a family to be allowed time to process and grieve.’

Mr and Ms Webber added that they will not make any further statements as the police investigation into the attack develops.

In addition to the statement, they released a series of photographs of Barnaby, who was also described as an ‘amazing son, brother, grandson, nephew and friend’.

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