UNITED KINGDOM
Sky News
By Tom Parmenter, Sky News Correspondent
The new chair of the Child Abuse Inquiry has insisted she has no links to the British Establishment.
New Zealand judge Justice Lowell Goddard revealed that, since arriving in the UK, she had to check what British people meant by the term “establishment”.
She told MPs during her first public engagement since being appointed: “We don’t have such a thing in my country.
“Do I have any links into any institution or person relevant to the subject matter? … No, I don’t,” she said.
The two women previously appointed by Home Secretary Theresa May both had to step down after their links to powerful people who may have been part of the investigations.
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