Commemoration Hearing (24 May 2018 - Pt 2 of 2)

Thursday 24th May 2018 · Wafaa, Hyatt (Fatiha's sister) · 30:02
▶ Watch on YouTube Open in interactive viewer

Grenfell Tower Inquiry - Commemoration Hearing (24 May 2018 - Pt 2 of 2)

Key moments

Full transcript

00:00:04 yes sir thank you first point I think you would have heard what I've said but we are able to sit at 9:30 tomorrow yes good thank you secondly is now the commemoration for

00:00:19 secondly is now the commemoration for Fatiha Ali our maid Elsa no see yes and Nancy Collins from the sister firm is going to introduce our commemorate errs and explain what's

00:00:30 our commemorate errs and explain what's going to happen good thank you

00:00:34 so here today we have Hyatt sister too Fatiha and Wafaa close friend and

00:00:45 Fatiha and Wafaa close friend and distant relation to 30 year and they together have prepared a pen portrait which waffle will read first in English

00:00:56 which waffle will read first in English and then in Arabic

00:01:08 hello Salam alikoum before I read what hired 14 sisters okay just so they can

00:01:28 hired 14 sisters okay just so they can pick you up that's absolutely perfect thank you okay okay

00:01:34 just to say that again before I read the pimp or straight of that here written by Hyatt I just wanted to add something

00:01:48 Hyatt I just wanted to add something that about what here on the personal level of my relationship with her as fat

00:02:00 level of my relationship with her as fat here is not just someone from the community but she's my older sister she is my godmother and she's a very very

00:02:16 is my godmother and she's a very very close friend to mind and that he and I [Music]

00:02:24 [Music] one of the greatest things about here we thought he was a pillar of the Sudanese community in London she was highly

00:02:35 community in London she was highly respected she was a source of wiseness and jolliness to the community people go

00:02:46 and jolliness to the community people go to her house all the time her house was always full of people she was really welcoming people go to her for advice and one thing that Minot might not come

00:03:03 and one thing that Minot might not come across in any thing that been written about food here in the media or anything that that he was one of the people who

00:03:17 that that he was one of the people who said a supplementary school for children in conditioning Chelsea called as a supplementary school she was one one of the first teachers to help

00:03:28 one one of the first teachers to help children connect with their culture she was one of the fierce defenders of children knowing about the culture the

00:03:41 children knowing about the culture the English culture the British culture they are in she defended supporting the National Curriculum course subject to be taught in the school and she worked in

00:03:52 taught in the school and she worked in that school since early 90s until 2004 that school was has been running until

00:04:05 that school was has been running until now and that school got the price of the best supplementary School in Kensington and Chelsea and the price was given by the mayor of Cadiz named Chelsea so that here was one of the people who run that

00:04:18 here was one of the people who run that school supported the children and supported the whole thinking of maintaining and preserving the Sudanese

00:04:29 maintaining and preserving the Sudanese culture and the British culture together so I just wanted to say that now I'm gonna read what Hyatt wrote about her

00:04:41 gonna read what Hyatt wrote about her sister I wish to say a few words about my sister fit here who lived in flat 206 at Granville Tower on the 3rd 23rd floor

00:04:54 at Granville Tower on the 3rd 23rd floor and died in that fire fatiah was born in 1940 in Sudan in our hometown of an Hood

00:05:06 1940 in Sudan in our hometown of an Hood she was 10 years older than me and she was like a mother to me I feel that she had adopted me as her child our mother

00:05:19 had adopted me as her child our mother did not work and we did not live with our father who lived with his other second wife we came from a large family and here was my closest sibling

00:05:32 and here was my closest sibling age when I was born our older brother and sister had moved away from the family home so it was just me and my mother

00:05:42 mother and fed here who lived together when I was very young we left under hood and went to live with our brother in Khartoum we added another paragraph and

00:05:57 Khartoum we added another paragraph and I think that's important that when Hyatt was 13 years old she was a victim of a fire and because of that had is

00:06:13 fire and because of that had is partially disabled and that here was the main support for her as a victim of fire another disabled person but he became

00:06:25 another disabled person but he became literally adopted Hyatt and became her mother and supported her in her education until her a 20 university that

00:06:37 education until her a 20 university that he was supporting her constantly knowing the culture if a woman had any kind of disability disability back in Sudan she

00:06:50 disability disability back in Sudan she might be ostracized from the community she might be treated in a different way and fatiah was the person who was

00:07:01 and fatiah was the person who was supported hi had accepted her disability and encouraged her until she finished University when I was at Primary School

00:07:13 University when I was at Primary School but here was a primary school teacher she would look after me at home and at school she would support me emotionally and financially when I attended middle

00:07:26 and financially when I attended middle school and secondary school I did not live with fat here because I was in a boarding school I would come home in the holidays and spend all my time with her

00:07:40 holidays and spend all my time with her but here it would take me everywhere she went

00:07:44 went to see her friends and anywhere she was visiting but he was all with the one who looked after me and who encouraged me with my education my best memories of

00:07:58 with my education my best memories of had here from my childhood are of the time we spend by the Red Sea we would travel there together and stay with our

00:08:09 travel there together and stay with our uncle who had the boats I remember then teasing me because I was scared of water of the water our uncle would say that

00:08:21 of the water our uncle would say that the water was not deep and would jokingly then take me to the side of the boat where the water was deepest I remember us all laughing about this we

00:08:34 remember us all laughing about this we had a fantastic time together by the Red Sea but here the pillar of strengths in my family she had worked hard to become

00:08:47 my family she had worked hard to become a teacher she was very kind and she was generous when our uncle died when our uncle died but he helped to support his children she was really loved by people

00:09:00 children she was really loved by people in our community and she had a beautiful soul but he was also a fantastic cook she was well-known for her traditional

00:09:11 she was well-known for her traditional Sudanese cooking she was welcoming and people would flock to her home people missed her when she moved to to live in London and when she

00:09:22 moved to to live in London and when she come back to Sudan to visit people would be excited to see her again

00:09:39 but here was a wonderful capilla was wonderful at sewing she was very creative and sewing was another source

00:09:51 creative and sewing was another source of income for her but he would make bridal dresses and she could print and stitch material to make beautiful saris

00:10:02 stitch material to make beautiful saris but he would also create things from leather she would decorate plain shoes and handbags with the leather items she

00:10:15 and handbags with the leather items she had made but he had learned to see from the it - so from the Italian nuns sorry

00:10:36 so but he had learned to solve from the Italian nuns who lived in all over Sudan she could also make jewelry using stones and beads she was well known for her art

00:10:48 and beads she was well known for her art history one fact when fat he married I stayed living with our brother I would still see that here nearly every day although we did not live together

00:11:00 although we did not live together anymore but he has husband was in the military he died sudden suddenly in 1984 in a suspicious circumstances although

00:11:11 in a suspicious circumstances although he was in the military he had to pause the war in South Sudan life was hard for fat here after her husband death but he and her children had had to leave their

00:11:23 and her children had had to leave their home on the military base and then had to rent somewhere to live sometimes after her husband death but he had a farm some distance from Khartoum where

00:11:36 farm some distance from Khartoum where we lived but he kept chickens on the farm and solved the eggs and she grew she grew feed for cattle she did this to

00:11:47 she grew feed for cattle she did this to support her family because she was paid very little as a teacher at one point the government took the farm away from that here but she fought to get it back

00:11:59 that here but she fought to get it back and the farm was returned to her at this time I was working in the Ministry of statistic and I helped to support with her and her family financially due to

00:12:12 her and her family financially due to the struggle in Sudan and the civil wars taking place but he left to live in England this was in the 1990s earlier

00:12:23 England this was in the 1990s earlier and it was not difficult to get a visa her two eldest children had left to study in Eastern Europe but when struggle broke out in the in there but he afford to get her children out out

00:12:37 he afford to get her children out out and they were able to move to Holland but he has daughter later moved to England when frontier first moved to

00:12:49 England when frontier first moved to England she lived somewhere in South London after a while she moved to Kensington and Chelsea and that he suffered hard difficulties and spend a month in hospital when she came out she

00:13:03 month in hospital when she came out she was offered housing by Kensington and Chelsea and eventually moved into Granville Tower I wasn't able to travel to visit but here when she moved to

00:13:14 to visit but here when she moved to England and I missed her very much we first met again in 1998 in Syria I was enjoying I was overjoyed to see her but

00:13:28 enjoying I was overjoyed to see her but he had arrived first and had paid for two hotels room however when we saw each other we could not be separated we stayed in one room with Sophia's

00:13:40 stayed in one room with Sophia's daughter and our eldest sister I remember the hotel manager asking why we were in one room but we didn't care we

00:13:51 were in one room but we didn't care we just wanted to be together and we had a beautiful a wonderful time but he obtained the British passport in around 2000 and then it was easier for her to

00:14:03 2000 and then it was easier for her to return to Sudan she would come once or twice a year for several months over time she had managed to build a little house for me to live in and that he

00:14:16 house for me to live in and that he would stay there with me when she come to visit but he was trying to build this house I had been living with our brother

00:14:29 house I had been living with our brother and his family and I think that he knew that I needed my own space as I said earlier Hayat needed her own space because of her disability and that he

00:14:41 because of her disability and that he was highly aware about that and this why she worked really hard to build that little house so Hyatt can get independence I think she always felt responsible for me and

00:14:53 she always felt responsible for me and she wanted me to be comfortable the fire the final time that what he came to visit Sudan was from November 2016 to March 2017 this was a wonderful time I

00:15:09 now wonder if at he and you that something was going to happen to her and that we had to make this time special we troubled all over the country together

00:15:21 troubled all over the country together and the only time we were apart was when fat here visited the Red Sea without me

00:15:41 but he came to this country as a refugee seeking security and safety after her struggle with the regime in Sudan where

00:15:57 struggle with the regime in Sudan where she and her children had been subject to harass harassment she felt safe here in London because of the way she died this

00:16:10 London because of the way she died this now feels like an illusion for us and definitely for her if our trust in this

00:16:23 definitely for her if our trust in this country has been destroyed I can't begin to describe my life without my sister

00:16:40 had this was a terrible terrible shock for me and I find it very difficult to cope without her my life has been has

00:16:53 cope without her my life has been has now been damaged by this twice twice as we say it's a double trauma for hired because she was a victim of fire herself

00:17:07 because she was a victim of fire herself and now she lost her sister because of fire so sorry for that I feel lonely and I cannot sleep that's hard statement in

00:17:27 I cannot sleep that's hard statement in English thank you for listening [Applause]

00:17:53 not with all the other details I'll just try to be read

00:18:05 howdy howdy he must with the knob - Afiya and fateh ali Madison OC vanilla and hired so nosy oh but here I was

00:18:19 and hired so nosy oh but here I was doing a cool bottle Kalamata and off the fat he led kind of talked on fish Chaka dragged me tensed Futaba Dallas foolish really bored Graham Philomath it will

00:18:31 really bored Graham Philomath it will hurry only that's what hey Effie arm alpha to serve me or buy in he waitin up imaginating new hood be Sudan can attack

00:18:43 imaginating new hood be Sudan can attack your neighbor ashes on Awad I cannot be mohabbat only I can have a net knee if Nathaniel AHA lamb token uma thurman volume recognized my ability Koresh

00:18:55 volume recognized my ability Koresh Maserati Hispania ausrotten are Kabira were candid fadhel a crap listenin random Allah - can wanna wattage Chebarkul integral is varied and

00:19:06 Chebarkul integral is varied and unbeaten laura-leigh the country led if offered here has nomicon - sorry I didn't reckon on hood or the hypnotist second MA - boom and the mccune TOEFL

00:19:21 second MA - boom and the mccune TOEFL Madras elected idea Canada Theo model resected a character initial bait or fill madrasah what a Domini Italian mammalian

00:19:32 mammalian nadir acetyl alder do Sanna Sanna Weah h2 very the non-fat Helen and Kentucky Madras Adalia Moroccan Molokini con tu ayuda a little mandatory lot unequal

00:19:44 ayuda a little mandatory lot unequal worked maja Canada who's Neela a Hema cannon test happily with the era of the liar

00:19:51 liar oli Hema cannon ah her reality can add amantani would she generational diversity I'd multi credit II declare to fully armed here hello Catalina ha Allah Saharan barrel

00:20:04 hello Catalina ha Allah Saharan barrel armor Coonans affirm on nakooma a melodica name lik more markovin welcome to the ebony reserve of Ho Chi Minh elmia economy ok listen

00:20:22 Ho Chi Minh elmia economy ok listen Amita so my Houdini magic an alliance with Merck up hi Samia it's the Kirkham attack na Galaga Oh Dana

00:20:31 Dana Oh cotton draw yet another settlement above a little booster her when anemic

00:20:44 above a little booster her when anemic intolerable in glee see here the her allowable hurry ecology super belly hired element Shelly the land he enough

00:20:59 hired element Shelly the land he enough Sarah taro Dudley hurry and mechanic feet I saw Lisa Sheridan hungry huh were harder hurry Allah the other head of the heart follow her who will be Messiah but

00:21:10 heart follow her who will be Messiah but Sir

00:21:12 Sir Sonya see hey idea

00:21:17 and then I kind of fit here mustard can adhere mustard Oh of us retina I'm a little speck mood IRISA what can it insanity evoke ARIMA we're in the one who fear army sir Hamas said

00:21:30 in the one who fear army sir Hamas said here feed army who lady hero cannon us to meet every night moon AHA felon who canít Roja Jamila Canada theatre Baha mahira at my roof Ibaka

00:21:41 mahira at my roof Ibaka sudeerneer tak Lydia Oh Canada with the Alpha yes Berlin you could build nice alibi Teja holy dark after the Hannah's

00:21:52 alibi Teja holy dark after the Hannah's in the myself until I feel London well I can endure my Canada's or Sudan cannabis I dunno Bureau anyhow me get Dylan Canada theama here's Luci otta current

00:22:04 Canada theama here's Luci otta current movie I didn't we should collect create a monster does lalafell aha cannot wait for $13 what about our mission tourists Otto Teresa a little Lou 20s who have a

00:22:16 Otto Teresa a little Lou 20s who have a Sarah Jamila ok noticed nominee Gil do to Zainul SEO and how high will pursue Tommy killed buzina kill da latest of Narva the unlamented here ottoman era he battle Italia marinara Jennifer Schecter and

00:22:29 Italia marinara Jennifer Schecter and her Sudan who cannot post man hula middle er wall Harris Okinawa roof of evil habit helfen-meer in the mythology alto enough wait ah he

00:22:40 in the mythology alto enough wait ah he who come to our effort here coolly um degree burn resume an alumna rudeness c'mon can easily hire me finish - Afiya fetch attend feels roof in Mareeba

00:22:51 fetch attend feels roof in Mareeba Rodman no kind of injection Okinawa ready will help fill universe Sudan want to telephone at heart you know Sudan Ozma had headed here sabado Offit

00:23:05 Sudan Ozma had headed here sabado Offit is olya a torrid hero Lodi Highness activate infinite idealist Korea will ste are by FEMA Karen are bad ofit so you have Ottawa Hospital Adagio mr.

00:23:16 you have Ottawa Hospital Adagio mr. serabian or tomb hi sucanat the school cannot repeat day yo TV albedo Ezreal O'Laughlin mushiya palace a local surfer allows ready her

00:23:27 palace a local surfer allows ready her the hominid beasts Canada even get them takuma moose a certain master ah he walked him MA well I can put here kapha

00:23:38 walked him MA well I can put here kapha had mean egg listed at Alma's raha Terra do hi leha podalic and welcome to our module there's an X ah was there at the feeder my fat heels ready huh Malian

00:23:49 feeder my fat heels ready huh Malian intercalate fat here Elijah Inglaterra miserable myself is to down rubella

00:23:54 rubella Leah what kinda has a pretty sure he not Romeo communist sovereign tasseled a lotta sheared tashera Safarova the hell camera LED Raza Fisher who bow like an Enderman the

00:24:05 Raza Fisher who bow like an Enderman the lattice rod who naka am Allah says hey yeah hidden italy rahim a mean Hunico so talented in a hollandic but the Dalek internal a dignity highly in get Cara faith he enough Shahada I brother Lucas

00:24:19 faith he enough Shahada I brother Lucas here middle mu by a Godman Akuma in a newcomer no you see Sudan like that Marat

00:24:27 Marat who has a servable a sassy lady and a fat heretofore careful Hedra Phoebe that hiya daffodil tara canada theatre ischemic animal feed you know london

00:24:38 ischemic animal feed you know london mother dolly can tackle at illa kensington eyelid fat him a shock L feel calm overdose Sharon film eustacia randomizer rocket al-mustafa or dolly huh ally her hi Kensington on chill and

00:24:51 ally her hi Kensington on chill and which LC masculine wanted here a little Ivy bridge-e grim Phil Laak there are several is the added here Oh bother

00:25:02 several is the added here Oh bother intellectualize finger ah kun tufted Oaxaca's hearin a wall more al-thani be hey we did didn't fishery a film and producer me it is Ottoman in desert a minuite serene fresh the foreign she

00:25:13 minuite serene fresh the foreign she didn't leroy eadie how can it hear that was a lot table was that years who your attempt in fundo what I can booyah Rodman and Lorena LM not an apostle and bubble bath Farina few gyrating were hidden magnets at he

00:25:25 few gyrating were hidden magnets at he rocked al-kubra added a car no m'dear el fondo de novo aji de la Keenan Adam no Valley I did enough a hot and no comma I'm more than our control

00:25:37 than our control hustled for theology or zeldathon if I am and Finn doc ribbon in Massa holly has here at the Sudan who can attack T Muro Muro then vasana

00:25:48 Muro Muro then vasana whatever I did a show about Murugan father worked the McRib in Vienna but is really Lily Irish ve o Canada theatres comer in the matter de fizzy are

00:25:59 comer in the matter de fizzy are Macerata who say began you know Sofia cannot motor out if you didn't MA yeah but after her okay

00:26:12 yeah but after her okay I love him I mean the idea limacon happy her miserable Yaga Leda fat here I'm a little we're not having bit of surreal

00:26:24 little we're not having bit of surreal look to her litters - hehe well you're gonna associate eheh new idea

00:26:36 canopy now but he abated liquor on mom in her Ford Contour Asuma he was ready he well I'm a con mucha enough a

00:26:49 he well I'm a con mucha enough a canotary Fanny bhai gala McCann has me I started and I can assure goodness Elliott yeah he what we do know and I wish Marta I heard the irrelevant here

00:27:01 wish Marta I heard the irrelevant here the Sudan karate November and freezer meals of Tasha Allah Maris alpha to serve meals of a fashion can walk to Ryan as enough ill and in Canada

00:27:12 walk to Ryan as enough ill and in Canada theater sharper and the che a man say I had this I know he died in Elena and I'll hasn't work talk to mummy movie isn't kinda how can attach our but no no harm or also to love if he had

00:27:26 no no harm or also to love if he had enough Oh does she behind it were that

00:27:32 suffer nyla shatter and had lb lad one of the Telford here Annie allure in the Masterson behind but be duly easier older than me

00:27:45 but he came sorry I'm just but he Hubbard Allah has healed ballot collage yeah vasin anna wa sallam middle harlan lady

00:27:59 vasin anna wa sallam middle harlan lady terracotta kafi ballot ha I mean who were Hannah Nia Sabah yeah a la una lit up has an alumnus

00:28:11 yeah a la una lit up has an alumnus Salaam oh yeah the trophy London well I can yep do anabolic Akana human I'm taking the lamb no Salam Walmart

00:28:25 taking the lamb no Salam Walmart he has history ago Molina

00:28:34 hi at the wall eno-kun an attorney and

00:28:43 has Al and AM no salami Lizzy Tara captured here of T ballad they have little data and and tada Murray has

00:29:02 little data and and tada Murray has Amitabha heeda aadhavan I shall be here : the goal headline Keaney and a society vilayati canada wada hisab mutton

00:29:13 vilayati canada wada hisab mutton Moffitt oh ha thud metal move job in this valley - our Valley at her mother had to be doing her a shot will work the well also the unknown land visible

00:29:25 well also the unknown land visible

00:29:37 thank you very much indeed yeah so that completes the commemorations for today thank you and we're going to sit early tomorrow morning 9:30 9:30 so we'll end

00:29:48 tomorrow morning 9:30 9:30 so we'll end there for today and resume at half-past nine tomorrow thank you good thank you very much

↩ All hearings