内容摘要：flew in through the window, right into her room,” her mother Viktoria tells the BBC. After the explosion, she and her husband Volodymyr ran from the next room to find their daughter’s room on fire.

flew in through the window, right into her room,” her mother Viktoria tells the BBC. After the explosion, she and her husband Volodymyr ran from the next room to find their daughter’s room on fire.

Cher Maximen, a "bubbly, vivacious and creative" mother, was fatally stabbed with a zombie knife at Notting Hill Carnival while trying to protect her three-year-old daughter last year after a fight broke out between a group of men.She was taken to hospital for emergency surgery but died six days later.

Her family spent hours agonising how to break the news to her daughter.When they did, her response was that she "couldn't save her" to which they replied: "Of course you couldn't, you're only little".When they picked her up from the hospital, the little girl was still wearing the silver shorts she had worn at Carnival.

The attack happened on what is known as family day.On Friday, Shakeil Thibou, 20, from Kensington in west London,

and ordered to serve a minimum term of 29 years.

The day before he was sentenced, I spoke to TJ Jacobs, who is the godmother to Cher's daughter, at her home in King's Cross, along with Cher's grandmother Vyleen Maximen, who is now raising Cher's daughter.Not everyone blames the housing crisis on the recent rise in immigration. It was "30 years in the making" because politicians have failed to build affordable units, argues Toronto Mayor Olivia Chow.

Certainly the country has a long history of welcoming newcomers. "Close to 50% of the population of Canada is first or second generation," explains Mr Neuman. "That means either they came from another country, or one or both of their parents came from another country. In Toronto, Vancouver, that's over 80%."This makes Canada "a very different place than a place that has a homogeneous population," he argues.

He has been involved in a survey examining attitudes towards newcomers for 40 years. "If you ask Canadians: what's the most important or distinctive thing about Canada, or what makes the country unique? The number one response is 'multiculturalism' or 'diversity'," he says.Nonetheless, he says the shift in public opinion - and the rise in concerns about immigration - has been "dramatic".