Grenfell Tower Inquiry’s final report to be published on 4 September

5/8/24

Second report follows hearings to determine how the Kensington tower block came to be in a condition that allowed fire to spread.

The final Grenfell Tower Inquiry report will be published on 4 September, it has been announced.

The second report into the 2017 disaster, which claimed 72 lives, comes after a seven-year long inquiry which examined 1,500 witness statements and 300,000 documents.

A brief notice on the inquiry website said: "The inquiry has written to core participants to inform them that the phase two report will be published on Wednesday 4 September 2024.

The report follows the final hearing in the inquiry's second phase, which examined how the tower block came to be in a condition that allowed fire to spread, in November 2022. The first report into the inquiry, which established a factual narrative of events, was published in October 2019.

The report comes a day after the Metropolitan Police said a total of 19 firms or organisations and 58 individuals are currently under investigation in relation to the disaster, by a team of 180 dedicated officers and staff.

It said criminal trials for the Grenfell Tower fire will not begin until 2027.

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