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[Pratters]

What's most annoying is that the residents had kept raising issues about fire safety for months before this and not much was done to address their concerns.

 

[Burgey]

If that's the case the building owner will be sued into oblivion. Cold comfort for anyone who's lost a loved one of course.

 

[ImpatientLime]

my cousin lives one street over and has been evicted from her place in case the tower comes down.

i work in north acton and as the tube came up from underground into white city this morning the carriage filled up with the smell of burning debris. it was ****ing horrendous. smoke all over west london.

some of the stories from eye witnesses are tragic.

 

[_Ed_]

I had nightmares about things like this when I was a kid. Absolutely horrifying. Can't imagine what it's like to actually experience it.

 

[_Ed_]

****ing hell, just heard a witness saying he saw people jumping.

 

[flibbertyjibber]

Sickening, just a nightmare.

 

[vic_orthdox]

Supposedly a lot of those complaints were before a refurb - not sure if the reno did anything about those, though.

 

[vic_orthdox]

Actually, stuff raised since:

https://grenfellactiongroup.wordpress.com/2016/11/20/kctmo-playing-with-fire/

 

[Spikey]

https://twitter.com/DawnHFoster (of the Guardian live blog) is posting some good stuff

https://twitter.com/DawnHFoster/status/874890430948810754

The company that did the refurbishment very quickly took down their little puff piece...

 

[StephenZA]

If that's the case the building owner will be sued into oblivion. Cold comfort for anyone who's lost a loved one of course.

And hopefully end up in jail... but no help for the current tragedy, as you say.

 

[Burgey]

London again. Finsbury Park Mosque - driver ran over several people outside the mosque apparently. Bloody awful.

 

[Daemon]

Grim reading this morning. First the fire in portugal and then this.

 

[flibbertyjibber]

London again. Finsbury Park Mosque - driver ran over several people outside the mosque apparently. Bloody awful.

Shame they can't string the bastard who did it up. Hope he never sees anything other than the outer walls of a prison again and they catch his mates who ran off.

Only thing that is a surprise is that it has not happened before with muslims being targetted particularly at that mosque given the notoriety it once had.

 

[fredfertang]

The world has gone mad - utterly, utterly depressing

 

[Burgey]

Have the reports about him having other people with him been confirmed? I haven't caught the latest.

 

[flibbertyjibber]

Have the reports about him having other people with him been confirmed? I haven't caught the latest.

Just seen an interview with a guy who helped restrain him and he says he only saw one guy in van. Not saying there weren't others who ran off but he only saw one.

 

[Burgey]

Yeah I just saw an update via the Met Police who said they aren't looking for anyone else, rejected earlier reports of others involved. I suppose they looked at the cctv and worked it out.

 

[Ausage]

Some pretty commendable restraint shown by the people at the scene by the sound of it.

 

[fredfertang]

Some pretty commendable restraint shown by the people at the scene by the sound of it.

Obviously nothing good comes out of incidents like this, but this does at least provide a glimmer of hope that society isn't going totally to ratshit

 

[Niall]

Not the usual "kept himself to himself" type blurb..
https://twitter.com/StigAbell/status/876838550901334016