Grenfell: Three men charged with fraud connected to tragedy

Fourth man due in court accused of possession with intent to supply class A drugs and possession of criminal property

Three men have been charged with fraud offences related to the Grenfell Tower disaster.

Abolaji Onafuye, 54, of Gorleston Street, West Kensington, Koffi Kouakou, also 54, of Elizabeth Court, south west London, and Abdelkarim Rekaya, 28, of Lots Road, Chelsea, are due before magistrates in Westminster on Friday charged with fraud by false representation.

Onafuye is facing two counts of the charge, while Rekaya is also charged with obtaining leave by deception.

A fourth man - Yonatan Eyob, 25, of no fixed abode - is also due in court accused of possession with intent to supply class A drugs, possession of criminal property and failing to supply a PIN code of a mobile phone contrary to section 49 of RIPA.

Five other people - four men and a woman - who were arrested on Thursday as part of the investigation have been released on bail, police said.

It comes as the police investigate the use of the "stay put" policy by the London Fire Brigade during the fire, which some of the victims' relatives have blamed for their deaths.

Earlier this year, a man and a woman admitted to claiming more than £125,000 in relief funding by posing as victims of the blaze.