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Met Police ask CPS to consider manslaughter charges over Grenfell fire

The Metropolitan Police has submitted its full Grenfell Tower investigation files to the Crown Prosecution Service, asking prosecutors to consider corporate manslaughter and gross negligence manslaughter charges over the 2017 fire that killed 72 people.

By Sarah Whitfield · · 1 min read

The fire-gutted shell of Grenfell Tower in North Kensington, its blackened 24-storey facade standing behind a street lamp and trees, photographed a month after the June 2017 blaze
Photo: Marathon, via Wikimedia Commons

The Metropolitan Police has asked the Crown Prosecution Service to consider charges including corporate manslaughter and gross negligence manslaughter over the 2017 Grenfell Tower fire that killed 72 people, British police said on Wednesday.

The force said it had submitted its full case files to the CPS for charging decisions, and also asked prosecutors to consider health and safety offences, fraud and fraud-related offences, and misconduct in public office as part of its investigation into what it described as Britain’s deadliest fire.

Detectives have passed files of evidence relating to 20 companies and 54 individuals to prosecutors. The fire in June 2017 in North Kensington, west London, claimed the lives of 72 people and was found by a public inquiry to have been avoidable.

The CPS has said charging decisions will be made before the tenth anniversary of the disaster, which falls on 14 June 2027.

Deputy Assistant Commissioner Kevin Southworth described the submission as “a milestone moment in the police investigation into this devastating tragedy which took the lives of 72 people”. He said the force’s dedicated team of 220 investigators had worked to present “the very best possible evidence to the CPS for charging decisions”.

Investigators examined the roles of more than 15,000 people and 700 organisations during the inquiry, taking 14,700 statements and submitting 12,600 pages of evidence to the CPS.

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