The serene atmosphere in Westminster’s Church House makes the bereaved mother’s angry words even more powerful. Genet Shawo, who lost her five year old son Isaac in the Grenfell Tower blaze, is finally speaking directly to the people she feels are responsible.
Through a translator, Ms Shawo explains how the fire services told her family, including two young sons, to stay in their flat in the early hours of June 14th 2017, even as the building and its cladding were engulfed in flames. For years, she and her neighbours had been worried that their home was not well maintained by the council.
