The fatal fire at a council-owned block in Daleham Gardens where safety recommendations had not been implemented

• INFORMATION on the death of Magdalena Fink back in November 2017 in a flat owned by Camden Council is slowly emerging from the cloak of council secrecy.

We know that the coroner issued a legal warning to the council outlining the changes that have to be made.

We know that the council failed to provide adequate fire safety measures for four years in the house in Daleham Gardens where Ms Fink died.

We know that the council was found guilty of failures by a Westminster magistrates’ court following a complaint by the London Fire Brigade.

We know that the council has now been fined £500,000. Speculation was that the amount would be £2,400,000.

We know that as council tax payers we will have to pay.

What we do not know is… Has the council undertaken an investigation into this horrific negligence? If so when will the report be published?

What disciplinary action has been taken against those responsible?

Have the coroner’s legal requirements been undertaken; what is the programme, cost and timetable for this work?

What compensation and other costs, such as hotel accommodation, were paid to the other tenants of the house?

Did the council report itself to the Regulator of Social Housing, an executive non-departmental public body, sponsored by the DLUHC, as other boroughs have done? And will there be charges of criminal negligence?

I understand information is being withheld from councillors as well as residents.

Perhaps the most terrible detail was of a phone call Ms Fink made to a friend as she was being killed by the fire, reminiscent of those made by Grenfell tower residents.

In my searches to find information I may have missed something; perhaps a councillor could enlighten me if so.

Perhaps a councillor could raise this serious issue at a full Camden Council meeting and demand an independent inquiry. I have little confidence that my questions above will be answered by the council in the CNJ.

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