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🗓️ 4 March 2018
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0:00.0 | When you're, when, when, when, you're, when, |
0:07.0 | when, you're, when, |
0:10.0 | when, |
0:11.0 | tonight I'm special. Tonight on Special Edition, 74 year old woman becomes the latest victim of the |
0:19.4 | Grenfell Tower Fire and two others are in court for fraudulently claiming assistance. |
0:27.0 | Also the details of the funeral for Matthew Leveson. |
0:44.0 | Hi, I'm your host, Cambo, grab a beer and pull up a deck chair. This is True Crime Island, Special Edition. When you're one. Okay, first up, are a couple of stories on the Grenfell Tower Fire and that's |
1:22.0 | courtesy of Get West London, the Daily Mail, BBC and the Guardian. |
1:28.0 | They were suggested by Debbie and thank you very much. Now first the sad news of another victim |
1:36.8 | passing. A woman rescued from the 19th floor of Grenfell Tower has died after spending seven months fighting for her life in hospital |
1:48.4 | Whissivere Burns. Maria Del Pilla Burton 74, known as Pilly, had been in hospital ever since her home was destroyed by the fire last June, killing her Beagle and 71 of her |
2:07.0 | neighbors. She suffered from a debilitating long-term illness prior to the disaster and required specialist care. |
2:16.5 | Her husband Nicholas Burton 50 who had lived in the tower for 33 years, said she died on January the 29th. |
2:27.0 | Now the cause of her death has not been disclosed. |
2:32.0 | In an interview in July, Mr Burton told how he lost his wife in the chaos as they were |
2:38.9 | rescued by firefighters at around 3.30 a.m. He'd been unable to carry his wife down 38 flights of stairs because |
2:49.2 | her long-term health conditions left her unable to walk. They had taken advice to stay in the |
2:58.1 | flat until help arrived and that advice trapped a lot of people. |
3:07.0 | Recalling the horror, he told the standard, I grabbed my wife by the waist as we ran, but I lost her and started screaming. |
3:17.2 | Where's my wife? Someone yelled, we've got her, an officer had my arm in a tight grip and as we got into the |
3:25.9 | stairwell he was shouting let's go let's go my eyes were open but I couldn't see a thing. I was stepping on things which I later realized |
3:36.9 | were probably bodies. He kept shouting, you can do it, nearly there, You can make it over and over. |
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