Mother seeks answers over offender released before son's murder

Summarised from 2 outlets · Updated 18 Oct, 11:14 · Archive

A fatal accident inquiry is to examine failings after a violent offender on licence murdered a man in North Lanarkshire.

Glasgow Times reports that Amanda Greer has welcomed a fatal accident inquiry into potential failings after her son Daniel, 33, was murdered outside his home in Greengairs, North Lanarkshire, in October 2020. Nicholas Henry, a violent offender on licence, attacked Daniel with a shovel before stabbing him nine times. The body was discovered two days later by Daniel's father.

Henry had previously been jailed for 12 years in 2011 for an attack that left his victim with a severed hand. He was released on licence around May 2017 with restrictions until February 2023. Just weeks before the murder, Henry was arrested twice: on 17 September 2020 for drug driving and carrying a knife, and on 10 October for drug offences and assaulting a police officer. He murdered Daniel one week later. Henry was sentenced to life imprisonment with a minimum term of 21 years in September 2022 and died in custody at HMP Low Moss on 27 August.

How it is being reported

• Probe into death of man killed by neighbour on bailNicholas Henry hit Daniel Greer with a shovel and stabbed him nine times in his own front garden in Airdrie in 2020.BBC Glasgow And West · 18 Oct, 12:57
• Heartbroken mum demands answers after violent offender released before son's murderAmanda Greer welcomes a fatal accident inquiry into potential failings after killer Nicholas Henry, on licence, murdered her son Daniel in North Lanarkshire.Glasgow Times · 18 Oct, 09:07

In this story: Amanda Greer · Daniel Greer · Nicholas Henry · Greengairs · North Lanarkshire · HMP Low Moss

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