Retired assistant chief constable Ruaraidh Nicolson told the Sheku Bayoh inquiry on Wednesday that he wanted any terror-related fears to be “quelled”.
Concerns about terrorism “had no reference” to the skin colour of a man who died in police custody, an inquiry has heard.
In his statement, Mr Nicolson said he had been asked if “the race of the individual could be a basis for understanding this to be a terrorist attack”. He replied: “It had no reference to that whatsoever. The information we had at that stage was that an attack was likely from a lone individual, who would potentially be carrying a knife.”
Top news stories today Ms Grahame mentioned retired chief superintendent Garry McEwan, who previously gave evidence to the inquiry. She told Mr Nicolson that Mr McEwan said there was never any point to suggest it was a terror attack. “What I wanted to do was say, ‘this is not terrorism-related’, so that we then quell any fears whatsoever and we try to make sure that we don’t have a spike in racially-motivated incidents at that time.”
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