All deaths in the Grenfell Tower fire were 'avoidable' said Grenfell Tower Inquiry chair, Sir Martin Moore-Bick, launching the panel’s final report into the 2017 disaster today, 4 September 2024.
Other key findings of the Inquiry include:
- Failings go back many years
- There was 'systematic dishonesty' from manufacturers
- The housing company 'distrusted' its own tenants
- Residents were badly let down by those responsible for fire safety'
- The housing company manipulated the process of appointing the architect
- There was a 'chronic lack of leadership and attitude of complacency at the London Fire Brigade'
- Victims of fire 'badly let down' in aftermath by the authorities
- Construction industry needs 'fundamental change'
- Victims were killed by toxic gases, not the fire itself
- 'A failure to treat residents as people'
READ THE FULL REPORT HERE