My heart is full of the pain and grief of Grenfell

'Shame' of resident flat where fire began , Dad’s heartbreak at ot stillborn after blaze

- MATTHEW YOUNG

THE man who lived in the flat where the Grenfell Tower fire began says the disaster has left him as “a ghost of a man”. 

A statement by Behailu Kebede was read out yesterday at the start of Grenfell Testimony Week, an event which was put together after a compensation deal was reached last year for people affected by the June 2017 tragedy in West London.

A legal hearing in May was told there had been a settlement of about 900 cases and a global sum of about £150million compensation agreed.

Before the testimonies began, the names of all those who died were read aloud, followed by a 72-second silence – one for each life lost.