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The Grenfell Tower Inquiry Podcast

8 Commemoration: Day 3

The Grenfell Tower Inquiry Podcast

BBC

News

4.8627 Ratings

🗓️ 23 May 2018

⏱️ 21 minutes

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Summary

The inquiry hears commemorations from the family and friends of ten people who died in the Grenfell Tower fire. Today the relatives of Anthony Disson, Zainab Deen, Jeremiah Deen, Ali Yawar Jafari, Gary Maunders, Majorie Vital, Ernie Vital, Rania Ibrahim, Fethia Hassan and Hania Hassan spoke

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0:00.0

This is the BBC.

0:05.8

This is the Grenfell Tower Inquiry podcast, a new podcast every day the inquiry sits.

0:11.9

I'm Eddie Mayer.

0:13.3

Among the people the inquiry had tributes to today, an Afghan jeweller, a father who was born in North Kensington, a seamstress from Dominica in the Caribbean,

0:24.2

a mother from Sierra Leone, and a Manchester United supporting painter and decorator.

0:30.1

After yesterday's incident where footage of the fire was broadcast without warning,

0:34.8

the enquiries published a list of trigger warnings,

0:36.9

with details of images

0:38.7

which the survivors and bereaved might find upsetting. The audience then has enough time to leave

0:43.9

the room before the images are played to the inquiry. Nine days have been set aside for all

0:50.2

72 people to be commemorated, but we don't expect it to take all of that time. It all depends

0:55.3

on how many people want to speak and for how long. For now, the inquiry is based in a hotel

1:00.8

in Kensington, but on the 4th of June it will move to Holburn bars in central London for the

1:06.0

start of the evidence. 65-year-old Anthony Disson lived alone on the 22nd floor in flat 194. He was born in

1:15.3

the area and remained there as he started his family, becoming a coach at the Brunswick Boys Club

1:20.3

and keeping horses under the flyover at Latimer Road. Here's a statement from his son, Lee,

1:26.8

read by a legal representative.

1:29.1

From an early age, time spent with dad felt magical.

1:33.4

You never knew what was coming next.

1:36.1

There were constant surprises, and spur of the moment activities which no matter how small

1:41.6

were always fun.

1:45.0

In a video, Tony's wife, Cordelia Disson, spoke about meeting him when she was 16.

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