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

Grenfell families say fight for justice has parallels with Post Office IT scandal

People gather in front of the makeshift memorial created on the wall surrounding Grenfell Tower in west London, on 14 June 2022.
Next week, people who survived and lost family in the fire that claimed 72 lives will take part in the four-day Grenfell Testimony Week. Photograph: Glyn Kirk/AFP/Getty Images

People bereaved by the Grenfell Tower fire have accused ministers of “whitewashing” the disaster, drawing parallels between their long fight for justice and the wrongly jailed post office operators.

Shah Aghlani, whose mother and aunt were killed in the fire in west London, told a press conference “the problem the country faces, from the Post Office to Grenfell” is that people in charge when disasters happen “walk away without any consequences”.

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