May ‘must Have Known’ about Concern over Goddard

By Andrew Norfolk, Sean O’Neill, Oliver Wright
The Times
October 14, 2016

http://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/may-must-have-known-about-goddard-concerns-bklm9q6m0

Dame Lowell Goddard resigned in August after 18 months chairing the child abuse inquiry

It would have been “inconceivable” for Theresa May to be unaware of concerns about the behaviour of the chairman of the child sexual abuse inquiry, a former minister claimed as MPs prepared to launch an investigation into the allegations.

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

It is claimed that her aggressive and abusive conduct at times reduced the inquiry’s operation to “near paralysis” while she was…