Restaurant manager Janina Eckhardt, 20, lives just across the road on Hammersmith Grove from where the shrine has sprung up on adjoining Richford Street, and heard the commotion when Kodjo was stabbed from inside her flat.
Hammersmith Grove, W6, is a tree-lined road of smart Victorian terraces which has counted actor Ralph Fiennes, BBC Today programme presenter John Humphrys and Downing Street chief of staff Jonathan Powell among its residents.