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A prison nurse has said she thought Zahid Mubarek's murderer was capable of killing someone but did not say so for fear of labelling him.

Lindsey Martin, a nurse at Hindley Young Offender Institution, told the Mubarek Inquiry that Robert Stewart was a danger to himself and others at the prison, from which he was transferred to Feltham YOI in 2000.

She said he developed a destructive relationship with fellow prisoner Maurice Travis, who was convicted of killing an inmate at Stoke Heath YOI in 1998.

But in filing a security report about them, she omitted her gut feeling that the two were capable of killing.

She said: "I thought that if...you say they are capable of stabbing or hurting someone, you are just labelling them...and that would stay with them right through the system."

Martin said she suspected Stewart had mental health problems and expected him to be referred for a psychiatric assessment on the basis of her report, but this did not happen.

But the inquiry was given a different picture by Dr Anthony Greenwood, former senior medical officer at Hindley, who said Stewart's behaviour did not suggest mental illness because he had "full insight into his activities and behaviour".