Charges sought for up to 57 people over Grenfell

The Metropolitan Police will ask the Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) to consider charging up to 57 individuals and 20 companies over the Grenfell Tower fire disaster.

In an update at New Scotland Yard, the force said it would submit evidence files to the CPS by the end of September this year.

A final decision on whether to bring charges could take until June 2027 - 10 years after the fire, which killed 72 people. If the CPS does decide to prosecute, any trials are unlikely to begin before 2029.

Operation Northleigh, the £150m probe into the disaster, has examined the actions of 15,000 people across 700 organisations in the largest and most complex investigation ever carried out by the Met.