Police used wrong grenade before shooting asylum seeker, inquiry hears

Badreddin Abdalla Adam Bosh injured a police officer during the attack at the Park Inn Hotel in Glasgow.

Olly Dickinson

A hearing has been told how a smoke grenade was used in error by police who shot and killed an asylum seeker, after he stabbed six people at a hotel in Glasgow city centre.

Badreddin Abdalla Adam Bosh injured a police officer during the attack at the Park Inn Hotel in Glasgow in June 2020.

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