Award-winning nurse who was sacked for supporting colleague set himself alight outside Kensington Palace - 40 years after his mother also burnt herself to death

Amin Abdullah - who was said to have 'lived for his job' - suffered a 'mental breakdown' after he was dismissed from Charing Cross hospital, London, in December 2015. Two days before the appeal hearing over his sacking, the 41-year-old doused himself in petrol and torched himself outside the London home of the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge (inset). Westminster Coroner's Court heard how his mother had also killed herself by setting herself on fire when he was aged three. Today, at an inquest into his death, Mr Abdullah's partner of 12 years Terry Skidmore criticised the NHS trust for sacking him and then taking too long over the disciplinary process.