Glasgow hotel stabbings

At approximately 12:50 pm on 26 June 2020, a man with a knife stabbed six people in the Park Inn Hotel, West George Street in the city centre of Glasgow, Scotland.[1]

The attacker was shot dead by a police officer at the scene.[2] A police officer injured in the attack had tackled him, preventing further casualties.[3]

The attacker stabbed and injured six people, including a police officer and hotel staff.[2] The 42-year-old male police officer confronted the attacker, and suffered serious injuries to his neck, abdomen, and leg.[4] He later recovered and left the hospital.[1] A 17-year-old boy from Sierra Leone sustained injuries to his foot after a struggle with the attacker. The other injured men are two asylum seekers and two hotel staff members, aged 18, 20, 38, and 53; all were admitted into hospital.[3][5] One was in critical condition.[6]

At the time of the attack, the Park Inn Hotel had been closed to booked guests due to the COVID-19 pandemic, and had instead been hosting asylum seekers.[7][8] A spokeswoman for the campaign group Positive Action In Housing said the hotel was housing asylum seekers for the Mears Group, a housing and social care provider; 100 asylum seekers were said to have been residing there.[9][10]

The attacker, Badreddin Abadlla Adam,[11][12][13] was a 28-year-old male asylum seeker from Sudan who had arrived in the UK six months earlier.[14] He went on a rampage after complaining about the hotel meals served to him during the pandemic.[15]

Police Scotland announced that the stabbing was not being treated as a terrorist incident.[16]

Police Scotland Assistant Chief Constable Steve Johnson said, "As would be the case in any police discharge of firearms involving a fatality, the Crown Office and Procurator Fiscal Service has instructed the Police Investigations and Review Commissioner to investigate."[17]

Detectives are investigating whether the attacker was in any way inspired by the mass stabbing attack in Reading six days prior.[18]

Prime Minister Boris Johnson said he was "deeply saddened by the terrible incident in Glasgow".[19]

First Minister Nicola Sturgeon wrote on Twitter that her "thoughts are with everyone involved". She requested that the public stay away from the area and that they avoid sharing unconfirmed information.[20]