Long-awaited public inquiry report finds all 72 deaths in tragedy at tower were avoidable
Starmer apologises and police come under pressure to accelerate criminal investigation
Families of victims say report proves many firms were 'little better than crooks and killers'
A seven-year public inquiry culminated yesterday in a report that laid bare "decades of failure" by central government and egregious behaviour by a string of multimillion-dollar firms involved in the tower's disastrous refurbishment.
Sir Martin Moore-Bick, who led the inquiry, found that firms which made the combustible materials used on the tower - Arconic, Celotex and Kingspan "engaged in deliberate and sustained strategies to ... mislead the market".
He identified incompetence, "cavalier" attitudes and "concealment" of wrongdoing, while Grenfell residents' safety concerns were dismissed by their local authority and the landlord of the west London building they called home.
After the publication of the longawaited findings, Natasha Elcock, the chair of the families' group Grenfell United, sent a message to the Metropolitan police and the Crown Prosecution Service (CPS), saying: "It is now on to you to deliver justice."
Speaking in the Commons, the prime minister, Keir Starmer, issued "an apology on behalf of the British state" and said the report had prompted "a renewed determination to ensure that justice is delivered".
He pledged to "give all support and resource that's necessary".
The London mayor, Sadiq Khan, said: "Those responsible must now be immediately held to account,"while the local MP, Joe Powell, said with "no charges and no arrests... the government and the police must now do everything in their power to bring those responsible to justice using the full force of the law".
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