This was meant to me a celebration of everything that had been achieved in Croydon on the back of the BLM movement but it ended up very differently as in the early hours of the morning of the meeting Croydon saw the tragic shooting of Sgt Matt Ratana by a suspect in police custody.

His death was a really tragedy and the pain in that room and across Croydon that day was horrific. I can honestly say addressing the room after what happened was the hardest thing I have ever done.