Hotel bloodbath an 'avoidable tragedy'

Conditions ‘gave no regard to wellbeing of asylum seekers’

A STABBING in a hotel housing asylum seekers during the coronavirus lockdown was avoidable, a report has concluded.

Six people were knifed during a rampage at the Park Inn in Glasgow's West George Street in June 2020.

Sudanese man Badreddin Abadlla Adam, 28, was shot dead by police after the attack.

He was one of more than 300 asylum seekers who were moved from homes into hotels at the start of the pandemic.

Adam had sought help with his declining mental health  72 times before he lashed out at the hotel.

An independent inquiry, chaired by Baroness Helena Kennedy KC, has already branded the asylum system "broken". Its report probed systematic issues directly linked to the Glasgow incident and has concluded that it was an "avoidable tragedy".