Grenfell Tower fire: Police reveal painstaking task of identifying human remains in block

‘Sieves go down to 6mm so that we guarantee we can pick up small fragments of bone, teeth and any identifiable part of the body we can pick up at that stage’
The police sergeant leading the operation to recover the deceased at Grenfell Tower has told of the painstaking process of identifying human remains one month on from the devastating fire.
Disaster Victim Identification (DVI) coordinator Sgt Alistair Hutchins said officers were facing huge emotional pressures due to the scale of the tragedy that claimed at least 80 lives.’
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