Ed Daffarn complained before the disaster about fire safety flaws but was treated with ‘contempt’
A Grenfell Tower resident raised multiple complaints about fire safety in the years before an inferno killed 72 people but the council landlord “stamped on and marginalised” resident worries, the inquiry into the disaster has been told.
Ed Daffarn, 57, who escaped from the 16th floor eight months after warning on his blog of the risk of a “serious fire in a tower block”, said he raised the need for an evacuation plan, problems with a faulty fire door and changes to floor numbers ordered in the refurbishment, all of which the inquiry has already found led to increased loss of life. However, he said he was “stigmatised as a troublemaker”.
