OPINION - The Standard View: Grenfell, six years on: there’s still no justice for the 72 victims

SIX years ago today, London awoke to the almost unimaginable news that a fire in a north Kensington tower block had taken a terrible toll in human life. The horror of the news — that people in a tall building had been trapped in their own homes to die in the fire — gave rise first to shock, then to anger, as it became clear that what killed them was, above all, the cladding used on the block which ensured that the fire spread with horrible speed. Many people in London live in high-rise buildings; few of them did not think, “what if it happened to me?”