Survivors hope for answers as an inquiry delivers its report on London's deadly Grenfell Tower fire

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Survivors hope for answers as an inquiry delivers its report on London's deadly Grenfell Tower fire
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Sandra Ruiz, whose 12-year-old niece, Jessica Urbano Ramirez, died in the fire, said that "for me, there's no justice without people going behind bars."

high-rise building killed 72 people, an exhaustive public inquiry is set to report on the lapses and mistakes that turned a small fire in an apartment kitchen into the deadliest blaze on British soil since World War II.

The fire broke out in the early hours of June 14, 2017, in a fourth-floor apartment and spread up the 25-storey building like a lit fuse, fuelled by flammable cladding panels on the tower's exterior walls. The victims came from 23 countries and included taxi drivers and architects, a poet, an acclaimed young artist, retirees and 18 children.

Moore-Bick said the final report on Wednesday would examine the "decisions which led to the installation of a highly combustible cladding system on a high-rise residential building."

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