The ultimate spa day for dogs has launched at a popular Glasgow city centre hotel. Pooches and their owners will soon be able to get pampered together at Kimpton Blythswood Square, as the hotel prepares to welcome guests to enjoy The Ultimutt Treat.
11.11.2022 - 18:11 / dailyrecord.co.uk
A stabbing in a Glasgow hotel hosting asylum seekers during the Coronavirus lockdown was avoidable, a new report has concluded. Six people were stabbed during a rampage at the Park Inn hotel in Glasgow's West George Street on June 26, 2020.
Sudanese man Badreddin Abadlla Adam, 28, was shot dead by police after the frenzied attack. He was among more than 300 asylum seekers who were moved from homes into hotels at the start of the coronavirus pandemic.
Adam had sought help with his declining mental health 72 times before he lashed out at the hotel.
The Home Office says it moved people to reduce their risk of homelessness and to minimise the spread of Covid, but the move sparked anger from campaigners concerned about dismal living conditions.
An independent inquiry, chaired by Baroness Helena Kennedy QC, has already branded the asylum system "broken". Its latest report investigated systematic issues directly linked to the Glasgow incident and has concluded that it was an "avoidable tragedy".
It lambasted a "complete lack of clarity" around who was responsible for managing asylum seekers and scolded immigration officials for moving settled people out of communities. One family living in the same area for three years was told to pack up their lives in an hour.
The report said the callousness led to asylum seekers' mental health "deteriorating rapidly and to worrying depths", adding: "At worst, the moves were executed without any regard to health and wellbeing of the people involved."
Baroness Kennedy heard that no consultation was carried out and slammed Mears, the private firm given a £1bn contract to arrange accommodation over 10 years, for "exaggerating" its claims of dialogue beforehand. Migrants were also found to be
The ultimate spa day for dogs has launched at a popular Glasgow city centre hotel. Pooches and their owners will soon be able to get pampered together at Kimpton Blythswood Square, as the hotel prepares to welcome guests to enjoy The Ultimutt Treat.
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