Robert Stewart, from Hattersley, was jailed for life for the racially motivated murder of 19-year-old Zahid Mubarek at a young offenders institution in March 2000
A racist killer who beat his prison cellmate to death with a table leg then daubed a swastika on the wall in blood has been denied parole. Robert Stewart, 42, originally from Hattersley in Tameside, was jailed for life for the racially motivated murder of 19-year-old Zahid Mubarek at Feltham young offenders institution in West London in March 2000.
Prison guards reported that when they arrived at the cell Stewart had been standing over Zahid covered in blood and holding a table leg. Stewart claimed his cellmate had 'an accident'. He was transferred to Feltham from Hindley Prison, Wigan in the months before the murder, having spent the previous five years in custody. Just before he bludgeoned Zahid to death Stewart wrote to a friend: "Cant se it stickin in ere...I'll take extreme measures to get shipped out, kill me padmate if I have too, bleach me sheets and pillowcase white + make a Ku Klux Klan outfit + walk out of me pad wiv the flaming crucifix.
In June 2006, High Court judge Mr Justice Keith published his damning 724 page report. It castigated the prison service for a 'bewildering catalogue' of failures that led to murder. It told how prison officials missed 15 chances to save Zahid's life and named 19 members of the Prison Service whose failings played a part in creating a situation that led to the killing.
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