For the friends and neighbours of Mariam Kamara, her death at first would have seemed a tragic accident. A house fire had seemingly broken out in the first-floor bedroom of her home in Brixton during the middle of the night and she had become trapped.
As flames and smoke gushed from the windows, her teenage son Ishmael frantically called the emergency services, with the fire brigade rushing to the scene in Railton Road at 4.12am on 24 January last year.
