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Hello and welcome to the Grenfell Tower Inquiry podcast. I'm Sharon Heemans.

The inquiry resumes this week after a two-week break. It is now starting to hear evidence about

the management of the tower and relations between residents, the council and the tenant management

organisation, which ran it.

In this edition of the podcast, I'm going to be looking at the role race and class played at Grenfell.

It may well come up in some of the evidence we hear over the next few months.

The tower was home to a diverse community and it's something that has concerned many people involved in Grenfell and the

inquiry. Many groups affiliated to the bereaved survivors and residents have called for the

inquiry to investigate this issue. Imran Khan represents a group of the bereaved survivors and

residents. In his opening statement to the inquiry in June 2018, he spoke about Nazanine Aglani, whose mother,

Sakina Afra Sahabi, lived in flat 151 on the 18th floor and died in the fire.

As Nazanin says, I think it is striking to look at the face of those that died. They are

predominantly non-white. If my mother had been a wealthier woman with a different skin colour,

she would have been alive today.

Our clients want to know why it is that those that died were predominantly non-white.

Did that particular fact have any part to play in their deaths?

And he said,

There is grave foreboding amongst our clients that the race, religion or social class of the

residents may have determined their destiny.

We hope you will agree that this is a grave issue.

Leslie Thomas represents another group of bereaved survivors and residents.

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