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格伦费尔家属仍盼正义;警方寻求对54人提出指控
家属仍在等待就72人的死亡追究刑事责任。警方最终卷宗现已交给检察官;检察官承诺将在火灾十周年之前作出起诉决定,而非完成审判或作出裁决。
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对于格伦费尔大厦火灾遇难者家属和幸存者而言,72人的死亡至今仍无人因刑事责任而受到追究。警方的最终证据现已交由检察官审查,这是朝着可能提起公诉迈出的重要一步,但尚未回应他们对正义的诉求。英国广播公司新闻报道称,家属和幸存者团体“格伦费尔联合会”表示,目前还没有人被追究刑事责任,并呼吁让责任人接受法律制裁。1
2026年9月30日,伦敦警察厅宣布,已向英国皇家检察署提交最终调查卷宗,寻求对54名个人以及20家公司和组织提出指控。英国广播公司和《独立报》报道了这一移交。警方尚未宣布任何起诉决定或公诉:警方是请求检察官考虑提出指控,并未宣布这些指控已获批准。2 6
关键事实
LBC报道称,皇家检察署表示将在2027年6月14日之前作出起诉决定,即火灾发生十周年之际。这项承诺具体而有限,涉及是否起诉的决定,而非完成审判、作出裁决或判刑。对于等待刑事责任追究的家属而言,这一区别划分了下一项承诺步骤与他们所寻求的结果。4
可能涉及的罪名包括公司过失杀人罪、重大过失杀人罪、健康与安全相关罪行、欺诈及相关罪行,以及公职人员行为不当罪。这是正在考虑的罪名范围,并不意味着每名被提交审议的个人或组织都面临所有这些罪名。现有报道无法明确哪些指控与哪些拟被告相关,也未确定最终指控数量。1 9
本报道可获取的材料也没有提供经过核实的被提交审议的个人和组织名单。用格伦费尔事件相关报道中的其他姓名来填补这一空缺是不妥的。警方移交案件既不等于认定刑事罪责,也不保证一定会提起公诉。
已完成的一步,并非裁决
据GB News报道,副助理警务处长凯文·索思沃思称,此次移交是“警方调查中的一个里程碑时刻”。这意味着最终警方卷宗已全部提交;是否批准提出指控,则由检察官负责决定。7
伦敦警察厅于2026年5月19日公布了时间表,称调查按计划推进,预计在9月底前提交所有起诉卷宗。9月的移交如期完成。5月的声明还称调查团队已增至220人,但这只是此前的人员规模快照,并非经过核实的9月人数。10
拟涉及的个人总人数也较早前估计有所变化。英国广播公司5月19日的一篇报道提到,潜在指控最多涉及57名个人和20家公司。9月提交的最终案件则涉及54名个人以及20家公司和组织。较新的总数取代了早前的上限;差异原因尚未明确。不能将其解读为有三人被认定无罪,或有三起案件被撤销。21 2
据报道,这项调查规模相当庞大。英国广播公司新闻报道称,伦敦警察厅在“诺斯利行动”中花费了1.5亿英镑,并调查了15,000名个人和700个组织的行为。这些数字反映的是警方支出和调查范围,并非赔偿金、罚款或未来审判的费用。调查某人的行为并不能证明此人受到怀疑或有不当行为;调查范围远大于拟被告人数的数字,不应被误认为拟被告人数。1
检察官接下来必须作出的决定
调查人员和检察官在作出起诉决定时必须遵循《皇家检察官起诉准则》。皇家检察署称,完整准则测试分为两个阶段,首先是证据阶段。检察官必须确信,针对每名被告的每项指控,证据足以提供“定罪的现实可能性”。15 25
这一要求说明了为何警方提交的总人数不会决定一组完全相同且获准提起公诉的案件。测试的关键并非整体调查是否规模庞大,而是针对特定被告和特定指控的证据是否符合要求。单独的公共利益阶段本身并不构成有罪认定。目前报道的内容无法说明皇家检察署将如何评估针对54名个人或20个组织中任何一方的证据。
一个重要限制涉及在格伦费尔公共调查中作出的证词。2020年2月26日,司法部长宣布作出一项承诺,保护个别证人,确保他们在调查中提供的证据不会在未来的起诉中被用来针对他们。最初的官方情况说明书明确提及第二阶段的第1至第3模块,并将公司排除在外;当时的法律报道指出,受保护的是口头证词。这是对证据使用的保护,并非承诺证人永远不会被起诉。30 12 32
对公司的排除并未一直维持。2020年6月1日,时任司法部长苏埃拉·布雷弗曼宣布,将法律主体纳入保护范围,其中包括公司实体。其口头证词在未来刑事诉讼中不得被用来针对其自身。扩展保护范围的情况说明书还称,法律主体不能以回答问题可能导致自证其罪为由拒绝作答。36 34 39
这段历史的两个方面都很重要。如果重复提及2月时的排除规定,仿佛公司仍不受保护,那就是错误的。把6月的扩展说成免于起诉,同样错误:对特定证词的保护与免于起诉是两回事。
现有材料并未明确适用于既有文件、独立取得的证据或虚假证据例外情况的完整有效规则,也未说明6月的扩展是否保留了原有的模块限制。因此,没有依据在此断言,调查所收集的全部证据都可自由用于针对每一名被告,或全部不得供检察官使用。仅凭这项承诺,也无法断定任何拟议指控会成功还是失败。
如今的关键问题是:皇家检察署是否会起诉哪些个人和组织、将批准哪些罪名,以及何时宣布这些决定。警方的最终移交已完成;刑事责任追究尚未完成。下一项明确承诺是在2027年6月14日之前作出起诉决定,而不是在火灾周年纪念日之前由法院作出裁决。4
播出原貌 10 行
- Police seek Grenfell charges against 54 people and 20 companies and organisations. The fire killed 72 people, but no charging decisions or prosecutions have been announced. Will the final police evidence lead to prosecutions, and what must prosecutors decide first?
- The Metropolitan Police submitted its final investigation file to the Crown Prosecution Service on September thirtieth, twenty twenty-six. Prosecutors now have the final police evidence to consider, but the referral neither establishes criminal guilt nor guarantees that anyone will be prosecuted. The Crown Prosecution Service says it will make charging decisions before June fourteenth, twenty twenty-seven, the tenth anniversary of the fire. That commitment concerns decisions on charges, not completed trials, verdicts or sentences.
- Corporate manslaughter and gross negligence manslaughter are among the potential offences. The range also includes health and safety offences, fraud and fraud-related offences, and misconduct in public office. That does not mean every referred person or organisation faces every offence. There is no established final count of charges, no verified list of the referred parties available here, and no established link between particular allegations and particular proposed defendants. That limit does not prove that every identity has been withheld everywhere.
- The final files reached prosecutors within the police force's stated timetable. The handover completes a consequential police step; it does not complete the process of deciding whether anyone should face a criminal court.
- May's potential total was up to 57 individuals; the final referral concerns 54. The reason for that difference is not established. It cannot be described as three people being cleared or three cases being dropped. On May nineteenth, the police also said the investigation team had increased to 220 and that all charging files were on track for submission by the end of September. The handover fulfils that schedule. The staffing figure remains a May snapshot, not a verified September headcount.
- Operation Northleigh has a reported police investigation cost of 150 million pounds, with the actions of 15,000 people and 700 organisations examined. Those figures are not yet confirmed independently. They measure the investigation's scope, not its proposed defendants. Examining someone's actions does not establish suspicion or wrongdoing. The spending is not compensation, a fine or the cost of a future trial. Bereaved families and survivors continue to demand justice for the 72 deaths; criminal accountability remains unresolved.
- Each defendant and each proposed charge must meet an evidential requirement. Prosecutors must apply the Code for Crown Prosecutors. Its Full Code Test has two stages, with evidence considered first: there must be enough evidence to provide a realistic prospect of conviction against each defendant on each charge. The separate public-interest stage is not itself a finding of guilt. Police referral totals therefore do not dictate an identical set of authorised prosecutions. How the evidence will be assessed against any particular person or organisation remains unknown.
- Companies' oral inquiry evidence was brought under protection in June twenty twenty, changing the earlier position. On February twenty-sixth, the Attorney General had announced an undertaking protecting individual witnesses against their inquiry evidence being used against them in a future prosecution. The original factsheet specified Phase Two, Modules One to Three, and excluded corporations. On June first, then Attorney General Suella Braverman extended the undertaking to legal persons, including corporate entities. Their oral evidence was protected from use against them in future criminal proceedings. The extension factsheet also said legal persons could not refuse to answer questions on the ground that their answers would risk self-incrimination.
- Protection for particular testimony is not immunity from prosecution. The original exclusion of corporations cannot be treated as the position after the June extension. But the complete rules governing pre-existing documents, independently obtained evidence and exceptions for false evidence are not established here. Nor is it established whether the June extension retained exactly the original module limitation. It would be wrong to assume either that the inquiry's entire evidential record is freely usable against every defendant, or that all of it is unavailable. The undertaking does not establish that any particular proposed charge succeeds or fails.
- The answer is that the final police referral makes prosecutions possible to consider, not certain to follow. Which individuals and organisations will be charged, which offences will be authorised, and the announcement date remain undecided. The next stated commitment is charging decisions before June fourteenth, twenty twenty-seven.
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