Glasgow hotel stab threat 'not serious enough' for police report

An inquiry has heard police were not warned an asylum seeker threatened to stab people because the situation was not judged to be serious enough to merit the call. The next day, Badreddin Abdullah Adam Bosh attacked six people at the Park Inn Hotel in Glasgow and was shot dead by firearms officers. One former hotel resident told the fatal accident inquiry (FAI) into the incident in June 2020 that Bosh was in a "bad psychological state" prior to the attack. The hearing at Glasgow Sheriff Court will determine whether lessons could be learned. Bosh claimed asylum in the UK in 2019, telling the Home Office he had been beaten by the authorities in his native Sudan after taking part in protests. He arrived in Glasgow in February 2020 and in March told a case worker he was having problems in the city and that people were shouting at him in the street because he was gay. In April, after the start of the Covid pandemic, he was moved to the Park Inn Hotel along with other asylum seekers. He spent weeks self-isolating in his room, apparently suffering from Covid. By the end of April concerns over his psychological state were raised by a welfare officer. Bosh told another asylum seeker that pe