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The Grenfell Tower Inquiry Podcast

9 Commemoration: Day 4

The Grenfell Tower Inquiry Podcast

BBC

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4.8627 Ratings

🗓️ 24 May 2018

⏱️ 17 minutes

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Summary

The inquiry hears commemorations from the family and friends of twelve people who died in the Grenfell Tower fire. Today the relatives of Victoria King, Alexandra Atala, Mohamednur Tuccu, Amal Ahmedin, Amaya Tuccu-Ahmedin, Amna Mahmud Idris, Kamru Miah, Rabeya Begum, Mohammed Hamid, Mohammed Hanif, Husna Begum, Fathia Ali Ahmed Elsanosi spoke

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0:00.0

This is the BBC.

0:04.5

This is the Grenfell Tower Inquiry podcast. A new podcast every day the inquiry sits. I'm Eddie

0:11.0

Mayor. Now the inquiry, as you know, is being chaired by Sir Martin Moore Bick. And earlier in the

0:16.8

week, he received a painting of Grenfell Tower from a family as part of the memorials which

0:21.8

have been taking place every day. Before things really started this morning, there was a rare

0:27.0

moment of levity at the inquiry when Sir Martin took a moment to reference something he'd been given

0:33.2

by a member of the Shukair family who we talked about on Tuesday. Before we hear the first of our commemorations, I have a word of thanks to say.

0:43.2

Mrs. Konu Shouka has obviously been doing her baking this morning,

0:47.3

and she brought in two loaves of Lebanese bread.

0:51.0

They look extremely tasty.

0:52.3

One for my ushers, one for me and perhaps my team,

0:56.9

if they're well behaved. Anyway, thank you very much indeed. We look forward to eating them later on.

1:02.0

Thank you. And then it was on to the serious business at hand. You might remember on Monday we heard

1:07.8

from Richard Millett QC, lead counsel to the inquiry.

1:11.6

He paid tribute to some of the families who, for their own reasons,

1:15.1

had decided not to publicly commemorate the relatives at this inquiry.

1:19.0

Here's what he said.

1:20.1

So may we remember.

1:22.5

Victoria King, flat 172.

1:26.7

So may we remember, Alexandra Atala, flat 172. So may we remember, Alexandra Atala, flat 172.

1:32.8

Well, this morning the inquiry announced that that family had got in touch

1:36.2

because they now felt able to contribute more fully to the inquiry.

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