Grenfell Tower inquiry: Block management was a mini-mafia
By Tom Symonds
image captionEdward Daffarn described Grenfell Tower s management as a mini-mafia
A Grenfell resident who predicted a catastrophic event would happen at the tower has defended his description of its management as a mini-mafia .
Edward Daffarn and another resident repeatedly attacked the Kensington and Chelsea Tenant Management Organisation (KCTMO) in a blog.
Mr Daffarn told a public inquiry his description of the organisation was not glib, shoot from the hip expressions .
Seventy-two people died in the Grenfell fire on 14 June 2017.
Giving evidence at the inquiry into the disaster, Mr Daffarn said he had spent a long, long time thinking how to describe this organisation but he wouldn t change a single word of it.
UPDATED 12:56PM, APR 19 2021
Lorna Brooke has died following a heavy fall at Taunton this month, the Injured Jockeys Fund (IJF) has announced in a statement.
The amateur jockey was treated on track and airlifted to Southmead Hospital in Bristol on April 8 after falling from Orchestrated, trained by her mother Lady Susan Brooke, in the 2m7f handicap chase.
The 37-year-old was taken into intensive care where she underwent observations and tests for a suspected spinal injury, but due to complications she was placed in an induced coma on Friday.
A statement from the IJF was released on Monday morning, which read: It is with deep sadness that we have to share the tragic news that Lorna Brooke passed away yesterday.
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Tributes have been paid to amateur jockey Lorna Brooke who died on Sunday aged 37 following a heavy fall at Taunton earlier this month.
Brooke was airlifted to Southmead Hospital in Bristol on April 8 after falling from Orchestrated, trained by her mother Lady Susan Brooke, and was taken into intensive care with a suspected spinal injury, but due to complications she was placed in an induced coma on Friday.
News of her death was announced in a statement by the Injured Jockeys Fund (IJF) on Monday morning, which read: It is with deep sadness that we have to share the tragic news that Lorna Brooke passed away yesterday.
Convicted terrorist Usman Khan was attending a prisoner rehabilitation workshop near London Bridge on 29 November 2019 before fatally stabbing two people and injuring.
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