A London businessman is due in court after making and distributing a video of a model Grenfell Tower on fire.
Landlord Paul Bussetti, 46, will appear at Westminster Magistrates' Court tomorrow after he was charged with an offence under the Communications Act 2003.
A Metropolitan Police spokesman said: "A man has been charged following an investigation into a video posted online that showed a cardboard model of Grenfell Tower being burnt.
"Paul Bussetti, 46, of South Norwood was charged on Friday, 12th April with two counts of sending/causing to be sent grossly offensive material via a public communications network, contrary to section 127(1)(a) and (3) of the Communications Act 2003."
Under section 127(1)(a) of the Act it is an offence to send by means of a public electronic communications network a message or other matter that is grossly offensive or of an indecent, obscene or menacing character.
In accordance with section (3) of the Act the maximum penalty for this offence is 6 month's imprisonment and/or a fine at level 5 (unlimited).
Six men were arrested after the video of a cardboard model of the tower circulated online shortly after bonfire night last year. The five other men remain under investigation.
A total of 72 people died in the Grenfell Tower fire in June 2017.
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