| Gesio and brother Milton
at their backyard in Harlesden, London. "The day Jean was killed, it
was a Friday, I made my last call to his number at 12:45 am. I left a message
on his answering machine because I was worried. We were supposed to work
together during the day fixing an alarm and he didn't show up. We had arranged
that I was going to collect him at Kilburn station in the morning and I
was supposed to wait for his call to then pick him up at the station. I
waited all day and at night I was tired and went to bed, but left my phone
on the floor near my bed in case he called me. When I had just started to
sleep the phone rang. I thought it was Jean. It was a policeman. He wanted
to meet up with me saying there was something urgent he would like to talk
to me, related to the terrorist attacks. I thought 'what do I have to do
with it?' A lot of people have my number so I initially thought perhaps
someone would have been in trouble. The policeman drove from Brixton and
soon arrived in my place. He then told me that Jean had been killed but
didn't give me much more information. Of course I couldn't sleep all night
and next morning I went to see Jean's cousins who shared a flat with him
in South London. They knew nothing about it. I had to give them the terrible
news. We then went to the police together and later we all went to recognise
Jean's body. One of Jean's cousin collapsed when she saw him dead. It took
us some time to understand what we were going through." 28.08.2005
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