Park Inn HotelAttack
A source-led incident page covering the 26 June 2020 knife attack at the Park Inn Hotel on West George Street, Glasgow.
Incident Overview
What happened
Date: 26 June 2020. Police Scotland’s incident log states officers responded at around 12:50pm.
Location: Park Inn Hotel, West George Street, Glasgow, Scotland, United Kingdom. Source wording also uses “West George Street incident” and “Glasgow hotel stabbings”.
Incident name: Park Inn Hotel Attack. Common alternative wording includes West George Street incident, Park Inn hotel stabbings and Glasgow hotel stabbings.
Short Summary
Six injured, attacker shot dead
A man later identified by Police Scotland as Badreddin Abadlla Adam, and by COPFS as Badreddin Abdalla Adam Bosh, carried out a knife attack at the Park Inn Hotel in Glasgow city centre.
Six men were injured. Later official and inquiry-related sources identify them as three asylum seekers, two hotel workers and Police Constable David Whyte.
The attacker was shot dead by armed police at the scene. Police Scotland said the incident was not being treated as terrorism.
Review disputed details →Key Facts
Source-supported figures
Chronology
Incident sequence
Operational Details
Response and welfare points
Disputed Details
Conflicts and unresolved points
The core later official picture is stable: six injured and the attacker shot dead. The main issues are early fatality reporting and name spelling.
One early Reuters report relaying BBC information said two people had been stabbed to death. Later official sources did not support that.
Reported two people stabbed to death and six taken to hospital.
State that six men were injured and that the deceased was the attacker, who was shot dead by police.
Later official sources support one fatality in the incident itself: the attacker. No other death was verified in the source set.
The attacker’s name appears in different forms across official and news sources.
Used “Badreddin Abadlla Adam”.
Used “Badreddin Abdalla Adam Bosh”.
Both forms appear in the record. The later formal COPFS wording includes the surname “Bosh”.
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Unverified details
These details were not verified as settled facts in the reviewed source set.
Source Material
References
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