The stepfather of an acclaimed artist killed in the Grenfell Tower fire has failed in a claim over a £250,000 inheritance from her mother - as he was already married to another woman when they wed.

Khadija Saye, a London-born photographer on the cusp of a career breakthrough, had work on display in Venice when she died, and her photos were posthumously exhibited at Tate Britain.

Despite trying to escape, she died, aged 24, along with her mother, Mary Mendy, 54, when Grenfell Tower in West London, where she grew up, went up in flames in 2017.

The family of the two women featured heavily in the inquiry into the disaster, but their deaths also resulted in a court fight over Miss Mendy's money - with the bulk of her £250,000 estate coming from her life insurance policy.

Miss Mendy had decided to leave everything to her daughter in a 2008 will, but as both women died in the fire the inheritance went to Miss Saye's father Mohammadou Saye and her close cousin Marion Telfer, with Miss Saye grew up with in Grenfell.

But the family faced a fight to claim the inheritance by Miss Mendy's second husband, Miss Saye's stepfather Bubacarr Bah.

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