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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
National
Robert Booth Social affairs correspondent

‘Every death was avoidable’: Grenfell Tower inquiry closes after 400 days

Protestors at the fifth annual silent walk at Grenfell Tower in June.
Protestors at the fifth annual silent walk at Grenfell Tower in June. Photograph: Chris J Ratcliffe/Getty Images

No one should have died at Grenfell Tower, the inquiry into the disaster that killed 72 people has heard as it closed after 400 days of evidence. The government said it was “truly sorry” for its own failures.

Richard Millett KC, counsel to the inquiry, used his final statement to declare: “Each and every one of the deaths that occurred in Grenfell Tower, on the 14 June 2017 was avoidable.”

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