When Tiago Alves completed his Masters at Imperial College last week, delivering a potentially ground-breaking physics dissertation of how to extend the world’s largest particle accelerator in Cern to study matter we don’t fully understand, it should have been a moment for celebration. But for Tiago, it was a diversion before returning to the real matter — “the fight for justice” — that has consumed his life since the tragic events in the early hours of June 14, 2017.
Tiago, then 20, was preparing for bed in the family’s 13th-floor flat, oblivious to a fire in a fridge nine floors below that was about to ignite the cladding encasing the 24-storey Grenfell Tower — and spread toclaim 72 lives.
