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Grenfell boss binned crucial inquiry notes
Survivors' group says such ‘indifference never fails to shock and enrage’
An Urban Search and Rescue officer from London Fire Brigade inside the Grenfell Tower days after the blaze in June 2017

A PROJECT manager for the Grenfell Tower refurbishment admitted today to binning her notebooks — despite knowing that a police investigation and public inquiry into the fire were under way.

Claire Williams, who worked for the London borough of Kensington & Chelsea’s tenant management organisation (TMO), said she got rid of the documents when she cleared her desk and left her job.

She left almost a year after the June 2017 fire, which killed 72 people and displaced about 223 more. The blaze was fuelled by flammable cladding installed during the 24-storey block’s refurbishment, which had finished just a month prior.

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