in north london. a service of remembrance has been held. tolu adeoye was there. prayer recital. remembering the life lost and saying prayers for those whose lives were changed forever, when a man deliberately drove a van into a crowd near the muslim welfare house in finsbury park five years ago today. 51 year old makram ali was killed in the attack. darren osborne from cardiff was found guilty of terrorism related murder and jailed for a minimum of 43 years in 2018. he also injured several others, including yassin hersi. one of my legs was broken, and the other one was really, you know, damaged. i ve seen the dead body of makram ali as well there. and all that things is still fresh to my mind, even though it s been five years. it s been a really very hard time. thank you all for gathering here today to. she sobs. to remember my dad, makram ali. some people say with time it gets easier, but i believe that it never gets easy. that black hole, you always have that black hole in
i still have flashbacks. i was the type of person that would never even give depression a look. i always used to say, oh, depression, that s not for me. i don t do depression. but that s totally wrong. the depression s taken a big hold of my life. ahead of the anniversary, survivors, grenfell residents, people involved in the rescue that night and those who lost loved ones are holding a memorialfootball day at queens park rangers in west london, close to the tower, people bonded forever by tragedy, heavily reliant on each other for comfort. coming together with everybody that survived the tower, the families, actually has a positive impact. you don t have to talk about grenfell because everybody sort of knows what happened. all right, one, two, look at the camera. just a smile, it warms you. cheers, mate. come on, boys! 72 people lost their lives as a result of the fire. the youngest was marcio s unborn son, logan. his mother, andreia, breathed in so much smoke and toxic g
soon after the fire, we pieced together the story of that floor. in flat 182 lived hanan s brother, abdulaziz el wahabi, his wife faouzia, their children yasin, nur huda and mehdi. next door, in flat 183, were marcio gomes, andreia, who was heavily pregnant, and their two daughters. nine people survived from the 21st floor that night. six perished, including all five of hanan s loved ones. sometimes you just. you feel the pain and you kind ofjust hold it. you know sometimes if you cut your finger with a knife, you just hold it. it sjust like that it s there. you can feel the throbbing, but you re just literally holding it. and then sometimes you just can t hold it and it sjust gushing. i struggled a lot. i feel guilty that we made it out and the rest of my family didn t. grenfell tower still stands five years on, a reminder of that awful
floor of grenfell tower. her brother and his family lived much higher up, on the 21st. soon after the fire, we pieced together the story of that floor. in flat 182 lived hanan s brother, abdulaziz el wahabi, his wife faouzia, their children yasin, nur huda and mehdi. next door, in flat 183, were marcio gomes, andreia, who was heavily pregnant, and their two daughters. nine people survived from the 21st floor that night. six perished, including all five of hanan s loved ones. sometimes you just. you feel the pain and you kind ofjust hold it. you know sometimes if you cut your finger with a knife, you just hold it. it sjust like that it s there. you can feel the throbbing, but you re just literally holding it. and then sometimes you just can t hold it and it sjust gushing. i struggled a lot. i feel guilty that we made it out and the rest of my family didn t.