A request to restrict the reporting of part of the Grenfell Tower inquiry has been denied by the former judge chairing the probe.

The Metropolitan Police and Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) asked for the evidence of Hanan Wahabi and Marcio Gomes, both core participants for the public inquiry, to be delayed until the culmination of a fraud trial.

The defendant, Sharife Elouahabi, pleaded guilty on the first day of his trial – on Monday this week – to fraudulently benefiting from £103,000 worth of assistance after pretending he lived in flat 182 in Grenfell Tower, which was home to the El-Wahabi family of five.