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Joseph Daniels Photograph: Handout

The short address by Sam Daniels spoke volumes of the continuing distress and anger on the part of many families at the events of last June.

His father Joseph was born in India, served in the Indian air force, moved to London in the early 1980s and lived in Grenfell tower on the 16th floor since 1983.

Daniels was a security guard an amateur bodybuilder and a committed Christian who loved singing and Elvis Presley.

About six years ago, Daniels began to show signs of dementia and his son became his full-time carer. When smoke started seeping into their flat on 14 June last year, Sam desperately tried to persuade his father to leave, but Daniels, who was confused, would not move. Sam, beginning to feel the effects of smoke, went to find help.

On the stairs, Sam met firefighters and told them his father was disabled and he had been unable to get him to leave the flat. They could not find Daniels, and Sam believes this is because, in the redecoration of the building a couple of years before the fire, the floors were renumbered, but the council did not paint the new numbers in the internal staircase.