Thread by @Lees_Martina

The hardest and most important article I have written in 20 years of journalism: Five years ago on Tuesday, 72 people died at #Grenfell. Over 10 pages, this is the definitive account of the disaster - and the lies, cover-ups and mistakes that led to it thetimes.co.uk/article/corner…

This is also the untold story of the 5-year-old girl from the Belkadi family on #Grenfell Tower's 20th floor: her mum, dad, big sister, 8, and baby sister all died. She alone survived. Her aunt Samira and I both cried talking about that terrible night thetimes.co.uk/article/corner…

And it is the shocking story of how the government failed to tighten flawed rules despite warnings, and how the three manufacturers of the panels that fuelled the fire practiced a "fraud... on the market". The details are devastating thetimes.co.uk/article/corner…

I spoke to Zak, who was 16 when he carried his sister Sara, 8, from the 9th floor, but their cousins on floor 21 were killed. Sara has a memory box with burnt photos and marbles from her cousin Mehdi, 8, who died. You can smell the fire when she opens it thetimes.co.uk/article/corner…

Here is what it looks like in tomorrow's @thesundaytimes @TheSTMagazine

Five years on, 640,000 people are still living in 345,000 unsafe flats. Only 6% of flats with flammable cladding have been fixed, finds our analysis of government data thetimes.co.uk/article/corner…

Arconic, Celotex and Kingspan all made misleading statements on the panels that spread the fire. They have made £6.5 billion in profit since the disaster, but paid nothing to compensate survivors or to strip their products from blocks across Britain. All 3 deny liability

Five years on, no-one has yet been charged with a crime. Police have interviewed 40 people under caution - some on multiple occasions - as part of its ongoing criminal investigation into the #Grenfell disaster

The bill for the public inquiry into Britain's worst post-war residential blaze has topped £150 million, including more than £61 million spent on lawyers representing victims and their families

Michael Gove is expected to announce a crack down on freeholders and developers who have failed to pay for remediation work. He will appoint a former Special Forces commando to lead a new recovery unit to identify and claw back funds from companies

Eight per cent of people in England (4.2 million living in blocks taller than 11m) have been affected by the scandal’s fallout. This number is here: assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/upl…

Despite government pledges of £9 billion to fix blocks, 345,000 flats are still unsafe. This includes up to 207,000 homes in blocks >18m (13,000 ACM + 193,400 nonACM gov.uk/guidance/remed…) and 138,000 mid-rise flats (11-18m) assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/upl…

The analysis uses the government average of flats per block for each height, and the government ratio of average residents per flat for each height

The owners of up to 1.51 million leasehold flats in blocks taller than 11 metres still face a struggle to sell their homes. This number is here:
assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/upl…