Millionaire, 46, charged over sick Grenfell Tower burning effigy video that caused fury

A PROPERTY millionaire has been charged after a video showing an effigy of the Grenfell Tower being burned was posted online.

Paul Bussetti, 46, from South Norwood in South-East London, is accused of two counts of sending or causing to be sent grossly offensive material via a public communications network.

Scotland Yard said he will appear at Westminster Magistrates’ Court on April 30.

The burning of the effigy sparked outrage from politicians, community leaders and the chairman of the public inquiry into the deadly fire when it was posted online on Bonfire Night last year.

In the video, a group of people laughed as they set light to a replica of the tower before crowing “stay in your flat” as it went up in flames.

After Bussetti was arrested it was revealed he co-owned an £8m block of flats in Clapham, South London, which were said to bring in around £30,000 a month in rent.

He reportedly inherited millions from his dad, landlord Lorenzo Bussetti, who was found shot in the head and chest following an argument with a tenant in south London.

The 55-year-old’s body was later found in a suitcase in Hackney in 2002.

Six men were arrested and a seventh interviewed under caution over the video, which was hosted by Smith at his South Norwood home.

Some 71 people, including a stillborn baby, died in the devastating June 14 2017 fire, and another resident died the following January in what was the country’s deadliest domestic fire since World War Two.