New Zealand judge to head child sex abuse inquiry

By Richard Ford
Times
February 4, 2015

http://www.thetimes.co.uk/tto/news/politics/article4344200.ece

Justice Lowell Goddard was chosen from more than 150 candidates

Theresa May

Richard Ford Home Correspondent Last updated at 2:13PM, February 4 2015

A New Zealand High Court judge has been chosen to head the child sex abuse inquiry, the home secretary announced today.

Justice Lowell Goddard, 66, is to lead a new statutory inquiry which is expected to investigate child sex abuse going back to 1945.

The New Zealand judge will be questioned by MPs next week when the Commons home affairs select committee holds a pre-appointment hearing with her.

Theresa May told MPs that the current panel of the troubled child sex abuse  inquiry will be disbanded and a new one selected to support the judge in an  inquiry expected to