Home Office ‘covered up Racism of Abuse Judge’

By Andrew Norfolk
The Times
October 14, 2016

http://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/home-office-covered-up-racism-of-abuse-judge-cpct9clq3

Dame Lowell resigned in August, hours after The Times revealed that she had been overseas for three months of her first year in office

Whitehall officials close to Theresa May were accused last night of covering up allegations of misconduct, including racist remarks, made against the judge in charge of Britain’s biggest public inquiry.

Home Office staff and advisers received warnings about Dame Lowell Goddard’s offensive behaviour in her role as chairwoman of the Independent Inquiry into Child Sexual Abuse (IICSA) but did not end her “catastrophic” leadership.

Dame Lowell, 67, finally quit in August after 18 months. It is claimed that her aggressive and abusive conduct at times reduced the inquiry’s operation to “near paralysis”.

The inquiry was opened by Mrs May in…