Glasgow knife attacker named as ‘loner’ Badreddin Adam who ‘vowed to stab hotel neighbours for making too much noise’

A CRAZED asylum seeker told pals he was going to “stab” his loud neighbours the night before he went on the Glasgow knife rampage.

Badreddin Abedlla Adam, 28, from Sudan, believed his fellow hotel guests were “making noise to deliberately annoy him”.

The “loner” made the chilling threat to friend, Siraj just hours before launching into the frenzied stabbing spree.

Six people were knifed in the horror yesterday – including a dad-of-two cop – with armed police shooting Badradeen dead.

Siraj, 22, told : “He said that he was going to attack two guys in the room next to his because they’re were making noise to deliberately annoy him.

“I said ‘No No No’ and that it was just that the hotels walls were thin and it was just noise.”

But he said Badreddin told him: “No. They hate me. And I hate them. I am going to stab them.”

HORROR ATTACK

Siraj warned hotel staff at the Park Inn but he later woke to find blood splattering the walls.

Badreddin, who is believed to have been in the UK for around six months after travelling from Sudan, has been described as having “big hair” and a cute face.

One fellow hotel guest, who saw Badreddin holding a knife, said he was “fed up” and wanted to go back home.

The knifeman was aged in his 20s and his mental health had been declining for around “three months”.

It comes after reported that a liaison worker had spoken with hotel staff about 11pm on Thursday – warning of concerns for the man’s state of mind.

It was further claimed that just minutes before the attack unfolded on Friday, the asylum seeker had spoken with an immigration solicitor on the phone.

The lawyer said he would raise concerns with a “safeguarding” team at the Home Office but minutes later at 12.50pm, the man began the knife rampage.

BLOODBATH

Police shot dead the suspect after the attack at the hotel, which is being temporarily used to house 100 asylum seekers.

Guests were alerted to the stabbing spree when screams rang out at the city centre hotel after the knifing around 1pm yesterday afternoon.

Cop David Whyte, 42, today remains in hospital in a stable condition – attacked as he arrived at the scene just two minutes after it began to unfold.

He today said he will “never forget the scene we were confronted with”.

Witnesses yesterday revealed how they found the reception area strewn with blood and victims lying inside and on the street.

A 17-year-old boy and the other victims, all men, are aged 18, 20, 38 and 53 and remain in hospital.

Police Scotland today confirmed three other people who were injured were asylum seekers staying at the Park Inn Hotel while the other two people who were injured were hotel staff.

All of them remain in hospital. One is critical but stable, and two are stable, at Glasgow Royal Infirmary. Two others are in stable conditions at the Queen Elizabeth University Hospital.

A hero delivery driver yesterday told how he tried to stem the blood of a handyman caught up in the violence.

And a traumatised friend recounted how his pal screamed “help me” after being stabbed by the “calm” knifeman.

Daniel Redhead said: “I saw him trying to fight the guy off as he was stabbing him.”

It comes after it was reported the knifeman had threatened other refugees rehoused in a hotel recently after complaining about living conditions, 

Ako Zada, an activist from Kurdish Community Scotland, told the Telegraph: “The attacker was a Sudanese asylum seeker and he’d been telling his friends that he was very hungry in the hotel.

“In the past few days he was threatening people, and it was reported to the staff the day before.

“Sitting in a hotel for three months was a big issue – they said it was like being in prison.”

During lockdown, the hotel has been used to help shelter asylum seekers and trafficking victims by accommodation provider Mears Group.

Fears were raised in April over social-distancing measures among the men, women and families moved into shelter amid the coronavirus crisis.

In the wake of the attack, Nicola Sturgeon tweeted: “The toughest of days for Glasgow. My thoughts and best wishes are with those injured, and my deep gratitude goes to our emergency services, especially Police Scotland.

“I’m proud to call this city home and I know the strength and humanity of its people will always see it through.”

Boris Johnson tweeted his support to those affected, saying: “Deeply saddened by the terrible incident in , my thoughts are with all the victims and their families.

“Thank you to our brave emergency services who are responding.”