As inquiry ends this week, five years after fire tragedy, family members of the 72 dead ask if they will ever get closure

Children have become adults and four prime ministers have come or gone, but this week, in what feels like a different era to when fire engulfed Grenfell Tower in June 2017, public inquiry hearings into the disaster will finally end.

In closing statements after thousands of hours of cross-examination spanning five years, disclosure of 320,000 documents and over £150m in taxpayer legal costs, lawyers will rest the case against local officials, global corporations, builders and politicians.

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