
I will never forget the morning of the 14th June, 2017. I woke up at 5:30am, a few hours after the fire had begun. When I grabbed my phone, it was blowing up with notifications. My wife Nicola’s phone was buzzing even more often.
I woke her up and we watched the horrific tragedy unfold on our small screens. Both of us were in tears as we saw Grenfell Tower was in flames. We thought first of our friend, Khadija Saye, who at just 24 had become a talented artist and an assistant at Nicola’s art studio. She lived on the twentieth floor.