All 72 Grenfell deaths, including 18 children, could have been avoided, inquiry finds

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All 72 deaths in the Grenfell Tower fire were avoidable and the people who lived there were “badly failed” by authorities and the construction industry through incompetence, dishonesty and greed, inquiry chairman Sir Martin Moore-Bick said.

The Grenfell Tower fire was “the culmination of decades of failure” by central government and the construction industry to properly consider the danger of combustible materials in high-rise residential buildings, the final report into the 2017 disaster has concluded.

Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer said the Grenfell Tower Inquiry report identified “substantial and widespread failings” and the Government will carefully consider the report and its recommendations “to ensure that such a tragedy cannot occur again”.

The final Grenfell Inquiry report is a “significant chapter” but “justice has not been delivered”, Grenfell United said as the group representing some of the bereaved and survivors of the 2017 blaze insisted police and prosecutors must now “ensure that those who are truly responsible are held to account and brought to justice”. READ MORE: Grenfell Tower report LIVE as document published seven years after deadly fire Sir Martin Moore-Bick said: “The simple truth is that the deaths that occurred were all avoidable and that those who lived in the tower were badly failed over a number of years and in a number of different ways by those who were responsible for ensuring the safety of the building and its occupants. “They include the government, the tenant management organisation, the Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea, those who manufactured and supplied the materials used in the refurbishment, those who certified their suitability for use on high-rise residential