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TERROR AT THE
A dad cradles
his young child
after escaping
from the block,
while a man,
above, is
treated by
firefighters.
Circled left,
smoke billows
from bin chuteFAMILIES fled in terror after 60 fire-
fighters were called to a blaze at a
27-storey block of flats.
London Fire Brigade dispatched
eight fire engines to Eddystone Tower
in Deptford, south-east London on
Sunday evening.
Firefighters tended one man who
apparently collapsed after escapingBy Aine Foxprosecution has argued that the
footage, which shows black and
brown cardboard figures inside
the building and some hanging
off as if falling from it, is also
racist in its content.
The court heard that Bussetti
had frequently used racist terms
like “P***” and “n*****” onWhatsApp. In one message he
referred to the “n***** priest”
in a conversation about the
wedding of the Duke and
Duchess of Sussex last year.
But Mr Summers said content
in the footage was “nowhere
near racist hate speech such as to
take it outside Article 10”.
He cited comments made by
Boris Johnson, before he became
prime minister, in which he had
called people in the Congo
“tribal warriors” with “water-
melon smiles”. He also referred
to a 2018 Daily Telegraph col-
umn in which the Tory MP
described veiled Muslim women
as “looking like letterboxes”.
Mr Summers said: “None of
these cross the high threshold of
hate speech, but all have ema-
nated from the mouth of the man
who is now our prime minister.
He has not been prosecuted.”
Of the effigy, Mr Summers
went on: “This was, whatever
one thinks, an artistic effort. It
was a model. It was satirical.” He‘Disgusting’
effigy not a
Bussetti outside court yesterdayTHE burning of a Grenfell Tower
model was a “mocking joke” and
an “artistic effort”, but not a
crime, a lawyer told a court.
Footage of the effigy being set
alight at a party last year
prompted outrage when it was
shared online. It was branded
“vile” by a relative of one of the
victims of the 2017 disaster.
Paul Bussetti, 46, has gone on
trial accused of sending a
“grossly offensive” video on
WhatsApp and causing footage
of a “menacing character” to be
uploaded on YouTube.
He has denied both charges,
but after an application to dis-
miss, chief magistrate Emma
Arbuthnot said she was satisfied
there was a case to answer.
His lawyer Mark Summers QC
said while the incident was
undoubtedly hurtful, it is pro-
tected by the right to freedom of
expression under the European
Convention on Human Rights.
He told Westminster magis-
trates court: “That joke was hurt-
ful, distasteful, mocking, disgust-
ing. But a public expression of
hurtful humour such as that is
protected by Article 10.”
A comment can be heard on
the video, which was played to
the court, referring to a “ninja”.
Prosecutor Philip Stott said it
is believed this was a reference
to a figure on the tower all in
black and wearing a niqab. The