ALL 72 Grenfell Tower victims died needlessly after a catalogue of complacency, greed and dishonesty, the damning report into the inferno has revealed.
And grieving relatives yesterday told of their fury at the deadly failings that condemned 54 adults and 16 children to horrific deaths, as they demanded those responsible face criminal charges.
There was also anger that any prosecutions may not happen until 2027, two years after the criminal probe into the blaze ends next year.
The long-awaited inquiry report into the 2017 disaster by chairman Sir Martin Moore-Bick blamed a string of organisations and authorities.
They include the government for ignoring safety warnings over cladding on the West London tower, dishonest firms that flogged the flammable material, and fire brigade chiefs who did not learn lessons from previous high-rise blazes.
Sir Martin said: "As our reports show, all contributed to it in one way or another, in most cases through incompetence but in some through dishonesty and greed. The failings can be traced back over many years.
"The simple truth is that the deaths that occurred were all avoidable." But even as Sir Martin delivered his brutal assessment of the disaster seven years on, another blaze ripped through a tower block in Catford, South East London. No one was hurt.
And it comes just a week after an inferno in a high-rise tower in Dagenham, East London, that was having unsafe cladding removed.
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