Zahid Mubarek was a British Pakistani teenager who was murdered by his cellmate, Robert Stewart, on Tuesday 21 March 2000 at the Feltham Young Offenders' Institution in West London.
Mubarek was hit between seven and eleven times before Stewart pressed the alarm and waited for the prison officers to arrive.
Once they did, he claimed his cellmate had an accident and was immediately moved to a nearby cell where he washed his blood-stained hands and clothes before a forensic team could isolate any evidence.
Prison guards reported that when they arrived at Mubarek's cell Stewart had been standing over him covered in blood and holding a large table leg.
[7] The unprecedented decision by the Law Lords to order Home Secretary David Blunkett to hold a public inquiry into the murder[8] was heralded a huge victory for the dead teenager's family.
Despite the family's four-year wait for the inquiry, some evidence is already in the public domain after the Commission for Racial Equality conducted its own investigation.