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The suspect in the triple knife attack in Nottingham was arrested after allegedly approaching police officers with a knife, it has been revealed. The 31-year-old man remained in custody on Wednesday as detectives try to establish why a man went on the rampage stabbing three people to death and driving into pedestrians with a van he had stolen from one of his victims. Counter-terrorism officers are assisting the investigation by Nottinghamshire police, but multiple sources say the suspect’s mental health is an active line of investigation, as police try to determine a motive. The Guardian understands that investigators believe the suspect was residing in Nottingham and had previous links to London. Police gave a sequence of events for the series of attacks that left two 19-year-old University of Nottingham students, Grace O’Malley-Kumar and Barnaby Webber, dead. The third stabbing victim was Ian Coates, a school caretaker in his 60s, whose van the man stole and then used to drive into pedestrians near the Theatre Royal, injuring one man critically, as well as two others. Nottinghamshire police said by piecing together “extensive CCTV coverage and eyewitness accounts” they could now track the attacker’s movements. At 4.04am on Tuesday they were called to Ilkeston Road, where the two students lay in the street, unresponsive after being attacked by a man with a knife. Police said they attended quickly. The man then tried to get into a hostel. Police said: “Investigations have ...