The chair of the Zahid Mubarek Inquiry, Justice Keith, told the final seminar in the public phase of the inquiry that a mental health nurse had assessed Stewart four months before he killed 19-year-old Mubarek in March 2000.
The nurse found that Stewart had a "deep-seated, long-standing personality disorder" and no insight into his condition, or concern for his own or others' wellbeing. This information was not passed on to wing staff at Feltham Young Offender Institution, who were also unaware that Stewart was a racist.
Justice Keith said he would have to decide if staff should have realised that Stewart, who had a skinhead and two tattoos on his forehead, posed a danger to his Asian cellmate.
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