It’s around 2am on the Piccadilly Line and the Tube carriage is empty – apart from me and a man twice my age. His eyes never leave me during the 40-minute journey.

Potbellied and with a menacing grin, he moves suddenly from the seat opposite, plonking himself down next to me. He’s desperate to get my attention, talking at me over the deafening noise of the train.

Unnerved, I get off before my stop. But he follows me and on to another near-empty train – this time the Jubilee Line towards Stratford. Again and again he tries to engage me in chat, staring at me and licking his lips.

I finally manage to lose him somewhere between the platform and the escalators at North Greenwich station.

Half an hour later, I’m on the platform at Green Park when another man starts trying to attract my attention, calling out to me. He’s well dressed in a Barbour-style jacket with fashionable glasses. He beckons me to sit down next to him while we wait for the train.

‘Beauty needs a seat, now. Come sit down,’ he says. I tentatively take up a place with two seats between us. He tells me he has a daughter who is my age.

He keeps asking me where I live, and after failing to get an answer starts to threaten me. ‘I will find the pub or restaurant next door to you. I’m going to come to look for you and I will find you.’

He doesn’t give up, repeatedly demanding my phone number. I tell him politely ‘no’ 20 times – I counted.

I board the train I’ve been waiting for. Laughing, he follows me into the same carriage, sitting down opposite me as he persists asking for my number. It’s around 3am now and the carriage is busy but that doesn’t deter him.

‘You have to give me your number, you have to. I am asking for yours. You have to meet up with me.’

Then he reaches over and strokes my thigh. ‘Please don’t touch me,’ I hear myself say.

A girl and her partner see what’s happening but say and do nothing.

By the time I get home, it’s almost 5am. I am badly shaken and film my reaction on my phone. ‘My heart is still beating quite fast. I just don’t think I expected it to be that bad.’

This wasn’t a normal night out. I had been working undercover for the Daily Mail’s investigative series, Underground UK.

Over two months earlier this year, I travelled across London’s transport network at all hours of the day and night, secretly filming what happened to me and documenting how it felt to move around the capital as a young woman on her own.

What I experienced has changed the way I view the city I love.

I was verbally sexually harassed around eight times and physically assaulted once on four journeys in the course of my undercover investigation, at night and during the day

In March this year, a London Assembly report described ‘unacceptable’ levels of violence against women and girls across the capital’s public transport network.

In 2025, 4,593 sex-based offences against women and girls were recorded yet only a tiny proportion, around 3 per cent, led to a charge or summons. Some 58 per cent of cases identified no suspect at all, despite an extensive network of CCTV and ticketing data that can help trace journeys. Recent cases show why. In May, Salman Yousaf, 46, was jailed for eight sexual assaults and one count of outraging public decency on the Night Tube.

He targeted lone women who’d fallen asleep on the Central and Jubilee Lines, but police only connected him to the attacks when he was already in prison for another crime.

In March, Craig Anderson, 38, was jailed after sexually assaulting four women and stalking another across the railway network. Prosecutors described him as a man who ‘did not take no for an answer’.

I travelled before work, after work, at weekends and on Night Tube routes on seven lines – the Victoria, Piccadilly, District, Circle, Central, Jubilee and the DLR (Docklands Light Railway).

For my safety, a producer accompanied me, close enough that I could signal if I needed help, but far enough away that any man who approached me wouldn’t know I was being monitored.

And I dressed carefully: a buttoned-up checkered shirt, long baggy trousers and a denim jacket, concealing the wires connecting to a hidden camera and sound recording equipment. I wasn’t laying myself out as bait.

I began my first journey at Holborn Tube Station in central London at 1.30am on April 25. Less than 15 minutes into the journey, on an eastbound District Line train, I noticed a group of young men staring in my direction.

I did what women so often do in these situations: looked away, kept my face blank, pretended to be absorbed in my phone. When I got off at Dagenham East, they got off too. They walked ahead of me, deliberately slowly and kept turning back as if to check I was still there. I walked out of the station, hoping they’d disappear, but they lingered.

It was only when I turned back and headed down to the platform again did they finally drift away.

Things got worse later – when I encountered that man in trendy spectacles at Green Park who assaulted me. The audio I recorded is muffled in places but I can hear, and I remember, my intense anxiety as he became ever more angry and insistent.

As one unpleasant interaction ended, another began. It was relentless. Within a minute of me standing up to get away from the man in the glasses, I noticed another group of men. One stocky man with sunken eyes came over and asked for my number. I said ‘no’ nine times. He stood so close to me I could smell the rank odour of the pub he’d been in as his hand ran down the pole near my leg. ‘What are you scared of?’ he asked, rolling his eyes.

There was a girl slumped against the wall of the carriage, clearly intoxicated. At one point he gestured towards her and said: ‘Look at her.’ All I could think was, what might happen to her if nobody was there.

In March this year, a London Assembly report described ‘unacceptable’ levels of violence against women and girls across the capital’s public transport network

Advertisement

With each incident I felt the burden was on me to stay calm, polite enough not to escalate the situation, firm enough not to encourage it and alert enough to work out whether I needed help.

By the time I got home I was exhausted, drained yet still in fight or flight mode.

I was verbally sexually harassed around eight times and physically assaulted once on four journeys in the course of my undercover investigation, at night and during the day.

Esme Rice, 31, didn’t have a hidden camera when she was aggressively sexually assaulted on the Tube recently – but her recollection is crystal clear.

On June 6, at around 11pm, Esme was travelling home on the Elizabeth Line after dinner with friends when two men orchestrated a sexual assault – blocking her exit to the doors as she got off and groping her. ‘They were not remorseful,’ she said. ‘They were happy with themselves that they’d just sexually assaulted me.’

At Stratford, where she exited the train, Esme says she told a member of staff.

There was no police presence at the station, a major Tube and rail interchange, and she was advised to text British Transport Police (BTP) on 61016.

She sent the message within two minutes. Fifteen minutes later, she received an automated response saying her report was ‘urgent’. It took 13 hours for BTP to call her back.

Frustrated, she posted about her experience on TikTok. Hundreds of women flooded her account sharing similar experiences. ‘I stayed up for hours waiting for the phone call,’ she told me. ‘I received nothing. I’ve just been sexually assaulted. How can they not be getting back to me?’

It wasn’t her first experience of policing failures.

In 2024, Esme says that a man masturbated over her on the Jubilee Line during rush hour. She screamed at him in the carriage but no passengers intervened.

The case was closed two weeks later because no positive identification could be made, despite the police having CCTV, according to Esme, and photos she’d taken of the man. Now she avoids travelling on the Tube when she can, scans the faces of passengers around her, always wondering whether she might see any of the men who assaulted her again.

Across the Transport for London (TfL) network, posters urge passengers to call out sexual harassment and encourage women to report incidents and text BTP under the famous, ‘see it, say it, sorted’ slogan.

But does it ever really get ‘sorted’? When I reported the physical assault I experienced to 61016, I was told it was ‘great’ I had photo evidence because the CCTV ‘would have expired about a week ago’. In fact, during a follow-up phone call, the officer told me the line I was on ‘doesn’t really have CCTV on it, anyway’.

A recent BBC investigation found this is far from unusual, and that many sex offenders are escaping justice due to serious issues with CCTV on public transport. Hundreds of women who have been assaulted are then told by police that they could not find their attackers because there was no available footage.

In more than 250 of 560 reports where officers requested CCTV, the incident had not been recorded, there was a system fault, the footage was unusable or it had already been overwritten.

Of course, not all men who use the Tube behave like this. But for many women, all it takes is one to determine if they can ever feel safe again

Advertisement

British Transport Police investigate offences, but CCTV is maintained by TfL and rail operators, which also set their own retention periods. There is no legal requirement for working CCTV on passenger trains, meaning potential evidence doesn’t exist or can be deleted before police request it.

On the Tube specifically, there are three major lines with little to no CCTV camera coverage in carriages. TfL says these lines have some of the oldest trains on the network, so are ‘unable to support on-train CCTV’ that would meet requirements needed for prosecution by the police.

For women, the gap between official advice and the reality of what happens after they have reported an incident is risible.

‘There is a big lack of trust in the reporting process,’ says Susan Leadbetter, a transport design expert at WSP, a global engineering and professional services consultancy. She has spent years researching how public spaces and transport can be made safer for women.

‘A lot of the women that I spoke to who had been assaulted or harassed – 20 per cent said that they would never report it again because of how it was handled.’

When she first began collating women’s experiences for a university undergraduate dissertation, she was shocked by what she discovered. ‘Women were telling me how they’d been groped, ejaculated on while on the Tube, followed home, stared at,’ she told me. ‘It was just so harrowing.’

The very design of the Tube, according to Leadbetter, is part of what makes harassment on public transport feel so frightening. 

‘You’re enclosed within that space,’ she said. ‘There’s no staff. There’s not much phone signal or data on some of the lines as well. So if something did happen, there’s a bit of nervousness around: how do I actually report it?’

There is, of course, a limit to how much London’s Underground can be physically transformed. The Tube is the oldest underground railway in the world, its narrow platforms and ageing trains built long before anyone was thinking about women’s safety, phone signal or CCTV coverage.

But there are things TfL could do. London graduate Camille Brown, 22, has made headlines with her petition calling for women-only carriages on the Tube, with a YouGov poll from last year finding a majority in favour.

‘I remember girls arriving at school in tears after incidents on the Tube. It was from about Year 7 [age 11-12] onwards,’ she says, adding that as a schoolgirl and student negative experiences on the Underground felt grimly routine.

Camille looked at the systems used in Tokyo, Mumbai and Mexico City. She suggests a designated carriage, at one end of the train close to the driver, where women who feel vulnerable could choose to travel.

Susan Leadbetter is not convinced. She says we need to work on what we can fix now: visible staff, working cameras, reliable signals and better-lit stations – and designing new routes with that in mind.

‘The Elizabeth line is great. The platforms are really wide, the lighting is really bright and you don’t feel tight and constrained on the platforms.’

She is careful not to suggest that design alone can solve violence against women. ‘You can’t out-design bad behaviour.’

The bigger problem, she explains, is that women are being made to feel unsafe because of people’s – largely men’s – behaviour. ‘These incidents do start at a low level.

‘They do evolve and grow into more severe instances because they get away with these smaller instances of harassment and violence… repeat perpetrators could be doing this to so many other people on the network.’

For all the young women I spoke to, the case of Sarah Everard looms large. The 33-year-old marketing executive was abducted from a street in Clapham, south London, in March 2021 as she walked home.

Mimi Yates is approached by a man on the Victoria Line tube at Tottenham Hale very early in the morning

Her murder, by serving Metropolitan Police officer Wayne Couzens, forced a national reckoning about women’s safety. Couzens had previously been linked to incidents of indecent exposure before he abducted, raped and murdered her.

Things are changing, albeit slowly. On June 9, BTP secured the first sentence in England and Wales under new sex-based harassment legislation on the railways.

David Stroud, 44, pleaded guilty after grabbing a young woman’s hair and trying to kiss her on an overground train, describing it as ‘banter’. For campaigners, it was a landmark moment: an acknowledgement that behaviour that is too often dismissed can, in fact, be criminal.

Stroud was sentenced to a 12-month community order and 150 hours of unpaid work.

For Esme Rice it isn’t enough. ‘Women have been systematically let down… it just feels like I don’t have a voice through the authorities.’

I tell Esme what had happened to me during my investigation and I ask her whether she sees those experiences as sexual harassment.

‘I’ve had people say, ‘oh he just grabbed your bum, it’s hardly rape’. It doesn’t matter, Mimi. Unwanted touching, unwanted interactions… no is, no. It’s that simple.’

Esme is right. As for me, I do move differently about the city I grew up in now. I scan faces on platforms, look twice at men behind me on busy platforms and wonder whether I would recognise the ones who followed me, touched me or would not leave me alone during my investigation.

Of course, not all men who use the Tube behave like this. But for many women, all it takes is one to determine if they can ever feel safe again.

A spokesman for Transport for London told the Daily Mail: ‘We are working closely with the police to make the transport network a hostile place for offenders.

‘The behaviour that Mimi experienced on our network is appalling and totally unacceptable. We encourage anyone who experiences or witnesses this kind of behaviour to report it to the police or a member of staff. We are also committed to improving CCTV coverage, image quality and data retention across the network.’

British Transport Police said: ‘We urge anyone who experiences or witnesses an offence on the railway to immediately report it to 61016 so our officers can make urgent enquiries. That number receives over a quarter of a million texts every year – and this figure continues to rise as confidence grows among passengers in reporting historically underreported crimes, such as sexual offending.’

And in response to Mimi’s assault, it said: ‘On 29 June we received a report of a sexual assault that happened two months prior, in the early hours of 26 April.

‘This report was immediately triaged by staff in our force Contact Centre, before being passed to police officers in London who contacted the victim directly by phone within 90 minutes of the report.’

WARNING: Distressing content. Police have confirmed a baby found dead in a portaloo at a festival is believed to have been born alive as homicide investigation continues

A newborn baby was found dead in a portaloo in a horrific discovery at an American music festival that police have now declared a homicide.

The cleaning crew at Electric Forest in Michigan found the baby during routine maintenance on Sunday morning, according to Michigan State Police.

The force said that the infant was discovered in the toilets in the festival’s camping area and was believed to have been born in the portaloo, as the placenta and umbilical cord were allegedly also inside, reports News 8.

The outlet confirmed that the baby was born alive and breathing, with fluid in its lungs and stomach.

Michigan State Police Lieutenant Pat Agema said the death of the newborn has been identified as a homicide. An autopsy was completed on Wednesday with the official report pending.

The identity of anyone who could be connected to the child is yet to be announced.

Thousands of attendees camped at the grounds near Lake Michigan at the festival from Thursday.

Police said in a statement: “The Michigan State Police continue to investigate the discovery of a deceased neonate found Sunday morning in the camping area at the Electric Forest Festival. Investigators are asking for the public’s assistance.

“If you were in the area and observed anything unusual, or if you have information that you believe may be relevant, we encourage you to come forward.

“We appreciate the public’s cooperation and ask that people avoid speculation on social media out of respect for the investigation and those affected.”

A festival goer posted on Reddit that they woke up to the sight of police on Sunday morning, with no awareness of the nature of the incident.

They wrote on Sunday: “This happened right by us at the Electric Avenue preset tents. We got up this morning to head out of the fest and there were about six-eight cops, four cop cars and a bunch of security/EF staff parked right around two cordoned off porta potties.

“We didn’t know what was going on but figured something bad happened. But this is horrifying.

“My girlfriend used those same bank of porta potties at around 6am and could’ve been unlucky enough to have gone in one of those. So sad.”

Another user wrote in a deleted post that they saw the baby and believed it was a doll at the time.

The post said: “I went into the porta potty and was about to sit down but glimpsed what was apparently an infant’s face.

“I was confused for a second, but honestly I thought it was a doll. People always bring weird s*** to festivals and it never occurred to me it was an actual body.

“After I read the report, it clicked.

“I now live with this crazy amount of guilt. Maybe if I took it seriously and reported it earlier that baby would still be alive? I’m very traumatized though and I won’t be going to any music festivals or porta potties for a long time.”

In a statement online, Electric Forest wrote: “Forest Family, it causes us so much pain to have to share this difficult news with you. Michigan State Police continues to investigate this tragic event if you can assist in any way. HQ is heartbroken and knows that our Forest Family is as well.”

However, despite the tragedy the festival posted at the end of the event celebrating ‘another stunner’ to which users called the organisers ‘tone deaf’.

One user said: “Crazy how the biggest headline of this place is about a dead baby in a porta potty yet you’re like “wow another great year,” shut this s*** down forever”

Another slammed the festival for being ‘out of touch,’ with many describing the response as ‘tone deaf.’

Police posted that investigators are asking for the help of the public for any information that could assist them.

The tragedy is not the only horrific incident from Electric Forest.

The event saw a number of deaths, following a car crash and suicide.

Jerard ‘Jay’ Jackson, 28, was reported missing after he was seen leaving the festival on Monday Morning.

On Tuesday at around 3.30pm authorities found Jackson’s body and said he had hung himself.

Michigan Police also said a car crash was linked to the festival, with a third person said to still be missing.

The Mirror have contacted Electric Forest for further comment.

By NICK ALLEN, US NEWS EDITOR (POLITICS)

Published: 00:57 BST, 2 July 2026 | Updated: 02:21 BST, 2 July 2026

Some Universal Credit claimants were wrongly moved from legacy benefits

Advertisement

Certain Universal Credit claimants who were compelled to transfer from older benefits due to a Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) mistake could be eligible for a one-off compensation payment.

The DWP has issued guidance setting out who may apply under its Successful Legacy Appeals Compensation Scheme, which is intended to compensate individuals who suffered financial losses after incorrectly switching to Universal Credit.

The scheme covers a limited number of claimants whose legacy benefits were wrongfully terminated before they successfully contested the decision.

Since making a claim for Universal Credit automatically terminates entitlement to legacy benefits, some individuals who subsequently proved the initial decision was incorrect were unable to revert to their former benefits and found themselves receiving reduced financial support.

The DWP stated the compensation scheme seeks to rectify that financial shortfall, reports the Daily Record.

To be eligible, claimants must have been in receipt of one or more means-tested legacy benefits, including Housing Benefit, Child Tax Credit, Working Tax Credit, income-related Employment and Support Allowance (ESA), income-based Jobseeker’s Allowance (JSA) or Income Support.

They must also have submitted a Universal Credit claim within one month of their legacy benefit ceasing as a result of the decision to halt their payments.

The sum they obtained through Universal Credit must have been lower than what they were receiving under their former benefit. Furthermore, the decision to halt their legacy benefit must subsequently have been overturned or reversed, confirming that they should have continued receiving that benefit and ought never to have been required to claim Universal Credit. Only those who satisfy all of these criteria are entitled to apply.

Successful claimants could receive a one-off lump sum designed to reimburse them for the financial losses incurred following their move to Universal Credit. The payment is calculated by taking the claimant’s biggest monthly financial loss and multiplying it by 12.

For instance, someone who lost £50 a month after moving to Universal Credit could receive a lump sum of £600, while a claimant who was £100 a month worse off could receive £1,200.

The compensation is intended to reflect the losses people experienced as a result of being unable to return to their previous benefit following a successful challenge to the original decision.

The scheme follows a Court of Appeal judgment in 2020 involving claimants whose legacy benefits had been wrongly stopped. The court concluded that while individuals could not be reinstated on to their previous benefits after claiming Universal Credit, those who received a reduced level of support had suffered a financial loss.

The DWP confirmed that the compensation scheme has been established for those affected by such circumstances. Applicants will be required to demonstrate that they were in receipt of a qualifying legacy benefit prior to transitioning to Universal Credit, and that the decision to end their benefit was subsequently overturned or reversed.

Claims can be submitted via the GOV.UK website, where applicants can also access comprehensive eligibility criteria and guidance regarding the supporting evidence they may need to supply.

It was a match all but guaranteed to be won by Senegal, who held a 2-0 lead until the 86th minute thanks to goals from Habib Diarra and Ismaila Sarr – only to be thrown away in the dying minutes.

Romelu Lukaku equalised with just four minutes left on the clock, before Leandro Trossard levelled matters in the final minute of normal time. A gruelling 30 minutes of extra time then ensued, as both sides looked to break the deadlock, only for it to finish in cruel fashion.

At the death of extra time, Lamine Camara fouled Youri Tielemans in his own area, with a lenghty VAR check leading to a penalty for Belgium. Tielemans ultimately stepped up to convert, giving his nation a 3-2 win.

Darren Grimes, Durham County Council’s cabinet member for economy, said extending the current Local Council Tax Reduction Scheme (LCTRS) for another year would provide stability while allowing the authority to assess the impact of changes introduced in April.

The council is proposing to retain the existing scheme for working-age residents throughout 2027/28, keeping the maximum level of support at 90 per cent of a claimant’s council tax bill.

About 54,100 residents are currently supported through the scheme, including 33,500 working-age people and 20,600 pensioners.

The current arrangements were introduced in April following a review and public consultation.

But they were criticised by political opponents, who argued they would place a greater financial burden on some of the county’s poorest residents.

Cllr Grimes said: “Earlier this year, we made significant changes to the working-age scheme, moving to a simpler, income-banded approach and introducing a minimum contribution for all working-age households.

“The changes weren’t taken lightly, but were necessary to ensure that the scheme remains financially sustainable and fair while continuing to protect those on the lowest incomes.”

As part of the new scheme, the council replaces the previous system with an income-banded model for working-age applicants, reducing the maximum level of support from 100 per cent to 90 per cent, and requiring all working-age claimants to contribute at least 10% towards their council tax bill.

Speaking at today’s (Wednesday, July 1) cabinet meeting, Cllr Grimes said it would not be “prudent” to make further changes before the authority fully understood their effect.

“The changes that were made to the LCTRS have only been in place since April,” he said.

“It’s therefore right that we take a measured, evidence-led approach to considering whether to make further changes. Making further changes now before we fully understand the impact on residents, collection and demand wouldn’t be prudent.”

Under the proposals, income thresholds used to assess eligibility would also be increased in line with the National Living Wage.

The Reform member for Annfield Plain and Tanfield added: “This is a balanced approach, maintaining and protecting support for those who need it while ensuring the scheme remains sustainable and deliverable for the council and the wider council taxpayer.”

Cabinet members were told that further monitoring is needed to understand how the revised scheme affects collection rates, administrative efficiency, residents’ ability to pay and any wider impact on deprivation.

The proposals will be referred to a meeting of the full council in October.

Tropical Storm Douglas formed Wednesday in the Pacific Ocean, the National Hurricane Center said.

The center of the cyclone was at sea and posed no threat to land. Douglas was located about 1,220 miles (1,960 kilometers) west-southwest of the southern tip of Mexico‘s Baja California.

Maximum sustained winds are near 40 mph (65 km/h) with higher gusts. The storm was moving north at 7 mph (11 kph), the center said, adding that a gradual turn to the northwest was expected late this week.

Tropical-storm-force winds extended outward up to 90 miles (150 kilometers). Some strengthening was expected Wednesday night with a weakening trend on Thursday, the hurricane center said.

Harry Kane was the hero for England as they came from behind to beat DR Congo 2-1 in the 2026 World Cup round of 32

Football supporters have demanded a knighthood for Harry Kane after the England captain rescued his country at the 2026 World Cup.

The Three Lions fell behind early in their round of 32 clash with the DR Congo on Wednesday evening, with Brian Cipenga finding the net after just seven minutes.

Thomas Tuchel’s side endured a laboured first half by all accounts, as they toiled to get back into the contest in Atlanta, Georgia.

Supporters felt aggrieved when Kane was refused a penalty midway through the opening 45 minutes, with referee Adham Makhadmeh awarding a free-kick to their African adversaries for simulation despite the England captain appearing to be felled by Lionel Mpasi inside the box.

Nevertheless, that controversy was swiftly overshadowed when Kane delivered when it mattered most in the latter stages of the fixture.

JOIN OUR WALES FOOTBALL FB PAGE! Get latest news, analysis and more on The Dragons

The Bayern Munich striker powered home a commanding header with just 15 minutes remaining to drag England level, before completing the turnaround 86 minutes in with a thunderous strike from the centre of the penalty area.

Consequently, the Three Lions clinched a 2-1 victory on the evening, progressing to the round of 16 – where they will meet Mexico at the Estadio Azteca on Monday, July 6.

Following the DR Congo encounter, supporters were swift to heap praise upon Kane for his match-winning display, with some even suggesting he deserves a knighthood should England triumph this summer.

One supporter posted on social media: “We win this World Cup, give Harry Kane a knighthood IMMEDIATELY,” while another said: “From disappointment, to delight. The Harry Kane show. Estadio Azteca next! !”

A third quipped: “They should make Harry Kane prime minister he seems more committed to the UK (England),” while a fourth declared: “Hot Take: Harry Kane should win the Ballon d’or.”

This follows Kane reflecting on England’s performance against DR Congo, as well as what must improve ahead of their forthcoming clash against tournament co-hosts Mexico. He told the BBC: “Still things to work on.

“These rounds are about going through. This one and the next one, the next one, away in Mexico – against Mexico – we have to grind wins out.

“I told the boys to enjoy [full time]; sometimes as an England player, games you’re expected to win, you don’t celebrate as you should.

“We’re the same as every other nation, we’re through, but enjoy it – we’re at the World Cup. We’re fighting for every moment and little margin.

“I want the boys to enjoy it, enjoy the moment with the fans, and we go again in four days. We spoke after the Croatia game, the subs making an impact, keeping the level higher.

“Over 90 minutes we’re tough to handle. Pleased for everyone involved, let’s keep it going.”

Get the latest World Cup news straight to your inbox by signing up to our Make Football Great Again newsletter now!

Tuchel, meanwhile, reflected: “We kept believing. We had the worst start possible. First shot, first goal. Then, it became even more difficult. After the first water break, we were on top of the game.

“I think we should have had a penalty. The substitutes came on, and put the effort in, and we won it. Well deserved, but we had to work a lot.

“We have to have that mindset if it is getting hard, it is getting hard, but don’t lose patience and don’t lose belief. The guy [Mpasi] was incredible the kind of saves he was making.”

Sky Sports, HBO Max, Netflix and Disney+ with Ultimate TV package

This article contains affiliate links, we will receive a commission on any sales we generate from it. Learn more

Sky has upgraded its Ultimate TV and Sky Sports bundle to now include HBO Max, Netflix, Disney+, discovery+ and Hayu, as well as 135 channels and full Sky coverage of the Premier League and EFL.

Sky broadcasts more than 1,400 live matches across the Premier League, EFL and more with at least 215 live from the top flight alongside Formula 1, darts and golf.

She said she and 31-year-old Ana Luz were extremely close and would talk every day on video calls. Her sister always had Kleiber by her side.

“Wherever she went, her son went too. Whatever Kleiber wanted, she would please him. If she didn’t have money, she would call me: ‘Kleiber wants this’ or ‘he’s missing this,’” Andreína said.

“She is my older sister and I always trusted her and could tell her my problems and whenever I spoke to her on a video call, the child was by her side.”

Andreína said she was certain that her sister would have been next to Kleiber in the rubble.

As she sat with her nephew in hospital, desperate search and rescue efforts were continuing after the earthquakes.

Some 2,295 deaths have been officially recorded, but the final toll is expected to be many times higher. Tens of thousands have been reported missing, and the United Nations has said it is procuring 10,000 body bags for the country.

Andreína said she had not lost hope that Kleiber’s parents would be rescued.

“Just as they found my nephew, I have faith that they are going to find my sister and my brother-in-law,” she said.

Looking affectionately at Kleiber, she said she believed “he has a purpose in the world”.

“When this child grows up, God willing, this will be his story,” she said.

Additional reporting by Euridice Ledezma