Jessica Urbano's Family Urge Public Not To Spread 'False Hope' About Child Missing After Grenfell Tower Fire
News | 06/18/2017 | 10:12 AM
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The family of a missing 12-year-old girl who is missing following the Grenfell Tower fire has urged the public not to spread unsubstantiated stories about her whereabouts.
Loved ones searching for Jessica Urbano have put up dozens of posters around west London appealing for information about the child’s whereabouts.
But missing posters bearing her photo have been scrawled with messages saying she is still alive.
In a video posted online, a volunteer organising supplies for the victims announced to a group of helpers through a loudspeaker that Jessica had been found in hospital in a “smoke-induced coma”, but her family said this is not the case, the Press Association reports.
Actor Noel Clarke took to Twitter to debunk the rumours, saying he was “speaking for Jessica’s Family” in saying she had not yet been found.
“The family are distressed by this false hope,” he wrote.
“They are still waiting for official news, no matter what the outcome.”
2/2 The family are distressed by this false hope. When they are still waiting for official news, no matter what the outcome. Thank you. pic.twitter.com/Hvm6DP3D9I
— Noel Clarke (@NoelClarke) June 17, 2017
Jessica’s mother was coming home from work when her daughter called her to say there was a fire in the building.
Adriana Urbano told The Telegraph: “Jessica had been asleep in our flat when something woke her - I don’t know if it was the smoke or a fire alarm - so she rang me at 1.39am as I was on my way home from work.
“She said ‘Mum where are you? Mummy come and get me’.”
Her mother urged her to run out of the building as quickly as she could before the phone line cut out.
Jessica was on the 20th floor of the 24-storey high-rise when the fire broke out in the early hours of Wednesday morning.
Maria Del Pilar Burton, 65 Maria Del Pilar Burton, 65, and her husband Nicholas were caught up in the blaze. Nicholas has regained consciousness and has appealed for help to trace his wife. He is certain she got out of the building. Maria has Alzheimer’s. Nadia Choucair, 33 The teaching assistant was in a flat on an upper floor with her husband, and three daughters. Yasin El-Wahabi, 21 and family Yasin El-Wahabi, his sister Nurhuda and their eight-year-old sibling Mehdi are missing along with their parents Abdul, 52 and Fouzia, 42, Otman Boujettif told the Evening Standard. A family member told the newspaper: “We fear they have all been wiped out.” It is believed the family lived on one of the upper floors of the tower. Hamid Kani, 61 Iranian Hamid Kani, 61, lived on the 15th floor of the tower block. Dennis Murphy Stevan Racz shared a picture of his uncle Dennis Murphy, saying he called his family saying he was trapped on the 14th floor during the blaze. Raymond ‘Moses’ Bernard, 65 A family friend confirmed to the Press Association that Raymond Bernard, 65, known to his friends as Moses, is missing. He had lived in Grenfell Tower since at least 2003. A 53-year-old woman called Karen Bernard is also registered to the same apartment. Husna Begum, 22, Abdul Hanif, 25 Husna, her brother Abdul Hanif , their sibling Abdul Hamid, 28, mother Rabiya Begum and grandfather Komru Miah, 90, are missing Sheila Smith, 84 Adam Smith tweeted that his mother Sheila, aged 84, who lived on the 16th floor is missing. Isaac Shawo, 5 Isaac became separated from his parents and little brother as the family tried to leave the building. His mother Genet Shawo told the Evening Standard: “I will not fear the worst, I am hoping and praying for him. He is a beautiful boy. He told us during the fire that he didn’t want us to die.” Marjorie Vital, 67 and Ernie Vital, 43 Marjorie and Ernie Vital, from the Dominican Republic, have lived on the 16th floor for more than 20 years. They have not been seen since the fire. Zainab Dean, Jeremiah Dean, 2 Francis Dean, 47, said
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