Police cordon off the city centre around West George Street in Glasgow
after the fatal stabbing incident at the Park Inn Hotel on 26 June 2020. 
Photograph: Robert Perry

From Sudan to the Park Inn: the tragic story of a migrant’s killing

A mass stabbing in Glasgow in June revealed the plight of asylum seekers crammed into hotels during lockdown

Daniel Trilling
Sun 18 Oct 2020 08.00 BST

On the last Friday of June, at about midday, Badreddin Abadlla Adam left his room at the Park Inn hotel in Glasgow, walked down to reception, and stabbed six people. The 28-year-old, an asylum seeker from Sudan who had been placed in the hotel as part of the UK government’s emergency response to the coronavirus pandemic, stabbed and seriously injured three other residents, two staff members and a policeman who arrived on the scene. Adam was shot dead by armed officers shortly afterwards.