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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
National
Robert Booth Social affairs correspondent

Grenfell survivor in whose flat fire started describes anguish to victims’ event

Grenfell Tower covered and with a banner saying: 'Greenfell. Forever in our hearts.'
Other members of the community demanded long jail sentences for those they held responsible for the 72 deaths. Photograph: Dominic Lipinski/PA

The minicab driver in whose flat the Grenfell Tower fire started has said his heart is “full of pain, grief and desolation” and he can “never forget that it was in my flat, in my kitchen that the fire started … and all those lives were lost”.

Behailu Kebede, who lived in Grenfell Tower for 25 years, told a highly charged hearing in central London – attended by 24 executives from companies accused of responsibility for the fire – that he remained “broken inside”.

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