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Mother of Grenfell victim said her daughter hung up their phone call ‘because she didn’t want me to hear anything’

Gloria Trevisan and Marco Gottardi were killed in the fire

The mother of Gloria Trevisan, who was killed in Grenfell Tower, said her daughter ended their phone conversation “because she didn’t want me to hear anything.”

Emanuela Disaro spoke to her daughter multiple times as she was trapped on the top floor of the tower with her boyfriend Marco Gottardi, 27.

She said during the last call to her daughter, she realised that “there was no hope.”

Ms Disaro said that as the fire worsened, the 26-year-old architect went through “panic, terror, concern, awareness and then resignation” as she realised crews had “stopped trying to go up.”

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“Gloria told me ‘I’m throwing myself out of the window, I swear to you the fire is here, it’s in the sitting room, the fire is everywhere, we’re just waiting.”

She said that Ms Trevisan wanted to stop the call.

“At that point Gloria said she was cutting off the phone because she didn’t want me to hear anything and she said goodbye to us.

“She wanted to cut off the phone because she didn’t want me to hear her scream. She said she just wanted to faint and she wouldn’t feel anything and said ‘I just want to stay with Marco now.’”

Gloria and Marco came to England from Italy in March 2017 and moved into the top floor of Grenfell Tower the following month.

Ms Disaro told the Inquiry that the couple had tried to escape via the roof of the tower but were blocked by a locked gate.

She said: "In this day and age, I don't understand how Gloria and Marco couldn't have got out of the building in the hour-and-a-half they had from when they were woken up."

Gloria's father, Loris Trevisan, agreed that "there was enough time to get out".

Mr Trevisan said he considered suicide when he first saw footage of the burning tower on Sky News.

He said: "I was devastated. I wanted to die, if I had a gun, I would have killed myself."

Gloria's body was flown home to Italy on July 18, with the funeral taking place the following day.

Her father added: "My life stopped there. I do not live anymore."

Additional reporting by PA.

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