Anger grows over failure to prosecute those responsible for Grenfell Tower inferno
By
Chris Marsden
15 July 2017
Residents and survivors of the Grenfell Tower fire have rejected the lies and excuses offered up by the Metropolitan Police to justify their failure to arrest anyone connected to the inferno.
Over 200 members of the local community gathered at St. Clements Church, north Kensington on Wednesday, marking one month since the fire. They were there to hear from the government “gold command” response panel, including Metropolitan Police Chief Superintendent Robyn Williams, investigating officer Matt Bonner and Kensington and Chelsea Council leader Elizabeth Campbell.
Campbell, who took her post after the forced resignation of Nicholas Paget-Brown, was treated with deserved contempt for doing nothing for Grenfell’s residents.
She had prepared for the meeting with two interviews during which she refused to apologise for the council’s actions prior to the fire and admitted she had never been inside a council flat. The elected representative for Sloane Square declared pompously, “I totally reject the fact that, just because I live in the south of the borough, I have no understanding of what’s going on in the north of the borough. And I also totally reject the whole notion that, because we have people in the borough who are wealthy and people who are not wealthy, the wealthy don’t care.”
At the meeting Campbell spoke complacently of the moves taken to clean up the surrounding area, to which a survivor responded, “Why is this meeting even taking place? So we’re here to talk about scaffolding, housekeeping and people cleaning windows but what about those people in that building who died?”
Bonner’s attempt to justify police inaction aroused even…