Report: Bristol Safeguarding Adults Board – Kamil Ahmad Safeguarding Adult Review
The racially-motivated murder of a refugee by a mental health patient who had been released from a psychiatric hospital was “avoidable”, a review has found.
Jeffrey Barry, 57, stabbed to death his neighbour Kamil Ahmad (pictured), 49, at their supported living flats on Wells Road in Bristol at about 2am on July 7 2016.
Barry, who has paranoid schizophrenia, had racially abused Kurdish refugee Mr Ahmad for years before he stabbed him to death and cut off his penis.
A review by Bristol Safeguard Adults Board found the murder was “the culmination of a developing race hate obsession”….
Continue to our news coverage or see below for full details of the Review with accompanying documents:
Kamil was a Kurdish asylum seeker who was murdered in 2016 by Mr X, a white British male, whilst both were residents in the same supported living accommodation for individuals with mental health needs. Mr X was convicted of murder in 2017 and is now serving a life sentence.
The Bristol Safeguarding Adult Board commissioned a Safeguarding Adult Review (SAR) to examine the care provided to both men.
The full SAR can be read here:
- Kamil Ahmad and Mr X (2018) – Safeguarding Adult Review
- A response to the SAR has been provided by the BSAB:
- Kamil Ahmad and Mr X (2018) SAR – Board response
- For the publication of this review, a press release and statements from relevant agencies have been provided:
- Kamil Ahmad and Mr X (2018) SAR – Press release
- Kamil Ahmad and Mr X (2018) SAR – Agency statements
- It is important that lessons are learned from Safeguarding Adults Reviews. A briefing for professionals on this case has been prepared here:
- Kamil Ahmad and Mr X (2018) SAR – Professionals briefing
Picture (c) Avon and Somerset Police / PA Wire.
