LONDON, Oct 6: Grace O’Malley-Kumar, the British-Indian teenager stabbed to death while trying to save her friend during a knife attack in Nottingham over two years ago, was on Monday honoured with the George Medal – one of Britain’s highest civilian honours for acts of great bravery. Grace, aged 19, was returning to her University of Nottingham with friend Barnaby Webber, also 19, when accosted by knife-wielding Valdo Calocane in June 2023. They were both killed in the attack by Calocane, who was later sentenced to a mental health order to be detained in a high-security hospital. Tributes had poured in amid calls for rewarding the bravery of the young medical student who was studying to become a doctor like her parents, Dr Sanjoy Kumar and Dr Sinead O’Malley. Grace was an avid spor

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