CEO of Grenfell Tower landlord blames staff for outdated fire safety plan

Documents showed no more than 12 disabled people lived in the tower but it was in fact home to 37 and 15 died in the fire

The chief executive of the landlord of Grenfell Tower has blamed his staff for allowing the block's fire safety plan to become 15 years out of date so it failed to account for more than two dozen of the disabled people in the block.

Robert Black, the most senior executive at the Kensington and Chelsea Tenants Management Organisation (TMO), told the public inquiry into the disaster that the obsolete plan showing no more than 12 vulnerable or disabled people was caused by staff not carrying out managers' instructions. The tower was in fact home to 37 disabled people and 15 of them died. The inquiry has heard claims from lawyers for the bereaved that the fire was a landmark act of discrimination against disabled and vulnerable people".