While the government apologised, the counsel attacked companies for a ‘merry-go-round of buck-passing’
- Grenfell fire: focus shifts to possible criminal convictions as inquiry ends
No one should have died at Grenfell Tower, the inquiry into the disaster that killed 72 people has heard as it closed after 400 days of evidence. The government said it was “truly sorry” for its own failures.
Richard Millett KC, counsel to the inquiry, used his final statement to declare: “Each and every one of the deaths that occurred in Grenfell Tower, on the 14 June 2017 was avoidable.”
Continue reading…
