London tower block falls: Mum demands action after son’s death

Her voice breaks as she recalls the moment she realised something was wrong.

“I went into his bedroom,” she says, “and I was like, ‘Oh, where’s Jovanni?’ And then I asked his dad, who was in the bathroom at the time, ‘Where’s Jovanni?’ But I noticed that the window was wide open.

“I then went over to the window, and, yeah, I saw him, you know, at the bottom of the window, I couldn’t believe it, and that’s when just all hell broke loose. Really, was just panic. It was hysteria. I just couldn’t believe what I was seeing,” Luanda recalls, her voice trembling with emotion.

Jovanni was a bright, intelligent boy who dreamed of becoming an architect.

His mother’s decision to speak about the tragedy for the first time to the BBC comes in the wake of two recent incidents in London. She has asked for her face not to be shown to protect her family’s privacy.

Jovanni was found lying on a second-floor balcony beneath.

Medics arrived quickly but he died soon after in hospital.

The post-mortem examination revealed Jovanni had died from multiple injuries caused by the fall.