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Grenfell landlord boss told colleague to ‘do nothing’ over fire safety fears

Robert Black, who led Kensington’s tenants management body, dismissed blog that warned of disaster

The chief executive of Grenfell Tower’s landlord body told colleagues to ignore a resident who warned eight months before the fire that “only a catastrophic event will expose the ineptitude and incompetence of our landlord”.

Robert Black, who led the Kensington and Chelsea Tenants Management Organisation, told a colleague with responsibility for fire safety “we should do nothing” after Ed Daffarn, a 16th floor resident, posted a blog in November 2016 which predicted “only an incident that results in serious loss of life ... will shine a light on the practices that characterise the malign governance of this non-functioning organisation”.

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