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I cannot say whether the smoke alarm would have cut through the sounds of his headphones.Kuzi Matope was lying in bed listening to music with his headphones on when the blaze took hold.Landlords Innocent and Clementina Mukarati pleaded guilty to failing to apply for a landlord license, which includes fire safety checks, when they appeared in court in January this year in connection with the fatal fire in March 2019.The Zimbabwean family had rented the property in Thornton Heath, south London from the couple they knew from church.
One of the smoke alarms had no battery, the other alarms battery had corroded and both devices were switched off at the main power line, the court heard. But the London Fire Brigade could not say for certain whether if the alarms had been working, Kuzi would have been able to survive. Kuzi arrived home from St Josephs College in Beulah Hill, Crystal Palace on the day of the blaze and at around 5.15pm his mother, an NHS healthcare assistant, awoke to have a bath in time for her night shift. Summarising the events, Assistant Coroner Catherine Wood said: One of Kuzis brothers alerted his mother that there was a fire upstairs. We heard how Mrs Maybie Matope was in the process of getting ready for work, and put her clothes on, ran up the stairs, opened the door and shouted for her husband to make sure the children were out of the house. We know his two younger brothers managed to leave the house at that moment. The Zimbabwean family had rented the property in Thornton Heath, south London from a couple they knew from church. ![]() This must have been dreadful to see and dreadful to relive today. Mr Patrick Matope and a neighbour made many attempts to smash the window to try to get him out of the house as they couldnt get back up the stairs. Mr Matope heroically tried to smash the window with his hand and injured himself while trying to rescue his son. RELATED ARTICLES Previous 1 Next Police make first arrest in investigation into Grenfell. The inquest at Croydon Coroners Court investigated the possibility whether the lack of working smoke alarms contributed in any way to Kuzis death. Mr Matope said: We never tested them the alarms. Obviously when we moved in in 2017, the house had just been painted. There was never any incident before that that would make me think they were not working. Landlords Innocent and Clementina Mukarati (pictured) pleaded guilty to failing to apply for a landlord license, which includes fire safety checks, when they appeared in court in January Adrian Parker, senior station officer with the London Fire Brigade, said: Smoke has to get to the smoke alarm to activate. While the bedroom door is closed, youre not going to get a lot of smoke travelling into the hallway. When the door was open, as it comes into the hallway, I would expect it to activate. I cannot give you a timeframe on when it would have activated without the door being opened as it comes down to external factors. With the bedroom door open I would have expected the smoke alarm to go off. Kuzi was laying on his bed listening to music on his headphones.
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