Grenfell Tower main contractor Rydon’s first project manager on the refurbishment quit the company because of work pressures, the inquiry into the disaster has heard.

Simon O’Connor was project manager for Grenfell Tower for the firm from May 2014 to July 2015 – when he resigned and was transferred to another Rydon project in north-east London to work out his notice.

Thursday’s session of the Grenfell Inquiry heard that the west London tower – which caught fire catastrophically in 2017 with the loss of 72 lives – had been O’Connor’s first job as project manager with Rydon. However he had worked for the firm since 2002.

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