UNITED KINGDOM
Exeter Express and Echo
Lady Butler-Sloss, who lives near Exeter, has stood down as chair of the child abuse inquiry
Lady Butler-Sloss is standing down as chair of the child abuse inquiry, Downing Street has announced this afternoon.
She decided over the weekend and is putting out a statement about now. The prime minister’s spokesman made the announcement at the Number 10 lobby briefing.
The Home Office was forced to defend the appointment of Devon peer Baroness Butler-Sloss to run the inquiry into allegations of an establishment cover-up of child abuse amid claims she refused to go public about a bishop implicated in a scandal.
Lady Butler-Sloss told a victim of alleged abuse she did not want to include the allegations in a review of how the Church of England dealt with two paedophile priests because she “cared about the Church” and “the press would love a bishop”, according to The Times.
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