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Grenfell bid for diverse inquiry fails
Court backs appointment of judge to oversee probe
THE BEREAVED SON of a Grenfell fire victim has lost his court bid against Theresa May’s refusal to make an inquiry panel probing the disaster more diverse.
Samuel Daniels’s 69-year-old father Joseph died in flat 135 on the 16th floor of the tower during the blaze in Kensington, west London on June 14 last year — he had lived there since 1983.
The Prime Minister has appointed retired High Court judge Sir Martin Moore-Bick as chairman of the inquiry, but refused to appoint a socially diverse panel to sit alongside him.
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