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For me there's no justice without people going behind bars,
said Sandra Ruiz, whose 12-year-old niece Jessica Urbano Ramirez died We are not prepared to wait for much longer, and this report needs to be the catalyst for significant movement forward from the Met Police in bringing charges against people who perpetrated the deaths of 72 people,
There were many opportunities for the government to identify the risks … and to take action in relation to them,
the report said, citing a 1991 fire involving cladding in Liverpool Regrettably, the Grenfell Tower refurbishment was marked by a serious lack of competence on the part of many of those engaged on it and, in the case of some manufacturers of construction products, outright dishonesty."
Your greed in taking advantage of the situation you had created was insatiable."
The fire at Grenfell Tower was the culmination of decades of failure by central government and other bodies in positions of responsibility in the construction industry,
said the inquiry report, which ran to almost 1,700 pages I can't pretend to imagine the impact of such a long police investigation on the bereaved and survivors, but we have one chance to get our investigation right,
Deputy Assistant Commissioner Stuart Cundy said His language and approach in his dealings with the TMO caused resentment among its staff,
Survivors described it as living in a limbo, with no space to heal,
However irritating and inconvenient it may at times have found the complaints and demands of some of the residents of Grenfell Tower, for the TMO to have allowed the relationship to deteriorate to such an extent reflects a serious failure on its part to observe its basic responsibilities.
The LFB failed to take any steps to enable it to respond effectively to that kind of demand
It could and should have been removed years earlier.
Our investigations have revealed that some important recommendations affecting fire safety were ignored by the Government in the years leading up to the Grenfell Tower fire.
Some, perhaps many, occupants of the tower regarded the TMO as an uncaring and bullying overlord that belittled and marginalised them, regarded them as a nuisance, or worse, and failed to take their concerns seriously.
Our investigations have shown that levels of competence in the construction industry are generally low.
In a damning summary, he said The dishonest strategies of Arconic and Kingspan succeeded in a large measure due to the incompetence of the BBA, its failure to adhere robustly to the system checks it had put in palace, and an ingrained willingness to accommodate customers instead of insisting on high standards and adherence to a contract that was intended to maintain them.
None of those involved in the design of the external wall or choice of materials acted in accordance with the standards of a reasonably competent person in their position.
Sir Martin Moore-Bick, who today completed a 1,600-page inquiry report into failures in the build-up to the fire, said Its lack of robust processes and reluctance to enforce the terms of its contracts enabled it to become the victim of dishonest behaviour on the part of unscrupulous manufacturers.
There is no simple answer to that question, but in this report we identify many failings of a wide range of institutions, entities and individuals over many years that together brought about that situation.
Those who emerge from the events with the greatest credit, and whose contribution only emphasised the inadequacies of the official response, are the members of the local community.