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An Urban Search and Rescue officer from London Fire Brigade inside the Grenfell Tower days after the blaze in June 2017
A PROJECT manager for the Grenfell Tower refurbishment admitted today to binning her notebooks — despite knowing that a police investigation and public inquiry into the fire were under way.
Claire Williams, who worked for the London borough of Kensington & Chelsea’s tenant management organisation (TMO), said she got rid of the documents when she cleared her desk and left her job.
She left almost a year after the June 2017 fire, which killed 72 people and displaced about 223 more. The blaze was fuelled by flammable cladding installed during the 24-storey block’s refurbishment, which had finished just a month prior.
YVETTE WILLIAMS and JOE DELANEY dissect the institutional dawdling that rubbed salt into the Grenfell open wounds prolonging the agony of survivors
Gisele Pelicot said ‘shame must change sides.’ We may think we agree, but, argues LOUISE RAW, society still has some way to go
As we approach the half-anniversary of the Grenfell tragedy, the community gathers to remember loved ones while grappling with mixed emotions surrounding the ongoing deconstruction of the tower and the hopeful plans for a memorial, writes EMMA DENT COAD
