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GRENFELL justice campaigners have called for community relations experts to join the inquiry into the fire, after a panel member was forced to resign over her links to the firm that supplied the flats’ cladding.
Benita Mehra resigned on Saturday from phase two of the parliamentary inquiry into the June 2017 blaze which killed 72 people.
Bereaved families had expressed concerns after it was revealed that, as head of the Women’s Engineering Society from 2015 to 2018, Ms Mehra had accepted a donation of £71,000 from the Arconic Foundation. The charity was a wing of Arconic, the firm which had built and supplied the combustible ACM cladding that was applied to Grenfell Tower.
As we approach the half-anniversary of the Grenfell tragedy, the community gathers to remember loved ones while grappling with mixed emotions surrounding the ongoing deconstruction of the tower and the hopeful plans for a memorial, writes EMMA DENT COAD
