A lawyer for the company which made the cladding panels
used in Grenfell Tower said it was unfair to pin the blame for the fire on
them. Stephen Hockman QC, speaking on behalf of cladding giant Arconic, told an
inquiry into the 2017 disaster the company’s product was used in a “wholly
unorthodox and irregular cladding system” on the west London tower, for which
it “bore no responsibility”. In 2019, inquiry chairman Sir Martin Moore-Bick
concluded the “principal reason” the flames shot up the building at such speed
was the combustible cladding which acted as a “source of fuel”. Read more on
the Evening Standard website.
London flat where boy fell to death could have had more safeguards, inquest
told
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Aalim Ahmed, five, fell from 15th-floor window at tower block family had
asked to be moved out of, court hears
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