More disturbing still was how familiar much of the evidence felt from our own working lives. Did no one working on Grenfell grasp the possible consequences of their decisions? The suggestion that the complexities of testing materials and following safety standards appear to have overwhelmed the professionals involved in a £10m reclad of a council tower block was unnerving. Fault was found with almost every player, from the architect and the manufacturers to the fire brigade and the building inspectors.īut conclusions that share blame and point to system failure will offer the bereaved little satisfaction.
In a 21st-century economy obsessed with outsourcing risk, witness after witness has repeated that key decisions were “someone else’s responsibility”. Reporting on the inquiry since its first day, I have sometimes worried that with 27 commercial organisations and eight public bodies tangled up in the Grenfell story, the inquiry will never reach a clear answer. While the public inquiry will not determine civil or criminal liability, Scotland Yard detectives will weigh its evidence when they consider whether to press charges. It has been a painstaking and expensive – £149m and counting – attempt to figure out who is responsible, and why. Moore-Bick would have to make sense of it all.Īs survivors and the bereaved mark the disaster’s fifth anniversary, the inquiry hearings are finally nearing their end. Millett’s job would be to cross-examine witnesses and marshal a legal army of 39 barristers and 10 solicitors to comb through 320,000 documents.
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