After the Daily Mail article on 18 May 2015 someone who had worked with/for Alabbar contacted me, giving me Alabbar’s personal telephone number and email address, given in confidence and kept in confidence, so that I could contact him and speak to him about Laura’s death. Months passed by but I never contacted him until the first year anniversary of Laura’s death was approaching and I was getting more and more upset about the lies told by the government of Dubai. He was chairman of the Emaar Properties at the time, the company that built the Burj Khalifa.
Part of an angry email I sent him on 27 July 2015.
“My daughter’s death from the observation deck on the 148th floor of the Burj Khalifa, barely a month after it was inaugurated, continues to haunt me and my family. As it will do for the rest of our lives.
As you know, it should not have been possible. Since her death you have firstly made the gaps smaller at the request of the Dubai police, also aligning the gaps so that they are now on the same level, and after my visit on 16 March 2015 when I put my head through the gap, a horizontal bar has been placed in the middle of the open spaces.”
11 November 2015, I phoned him. The first anniversary of Laura’s death was in five days time. He answered within seconds, telling me he would phone back shortly, which he did. He asked me who I was. I told him I was Leona Sykes.
“Do I know you?”
“No, you don’t, my daughter’s name is Laura Vanessa Nunes.” He said he would phone again, appearing on my WhatsApp as a contact.
I sent him a message on 11 November with the link to the Daily Mail report.
“Does this perhaps ring a bell?”
I was getting angry.
30 November.
“My daughter fell to her death from the 148th floor of the Burj Khalifa. Why was her tragic death hidden from the world?”
“I need closure.”
Laura Vanessa Nunes 