UNTIED KINGDOM
Mirror
16 MAY 2015
BY KEIR MUDIE
Baroness Elizabeth Butler-Sloss was forced to step down as head of the high-profile investigation and admits that many victims ‘will not be heard’
The inquiry into historic child abuse by VIPs is flawed and victims will be denied justice, according to a former head of the probe.
Baroness Elizabeth Butler-Sloss quit the investigation in July 2014 after it emerged her brother Sir Michael Havers was Attorney General at the time of some of the worst alleged abuse in the 1980s.
But giving a public talk in the run-up to the election, the 81-year-old was recorded saying she believed the inquiry was doomed to failure.
Outspoken Lady Butler-Sloss – best-known for leading the inquest into Princess Diana’s death – also branded SNP chief Nicola Sturgeon a “fishwife” and Alex Salmond “arrogant”.
A recording of her remarks at the Chatpolitics event in London, handed to the Sunday People, confirmed that the Baroness does not believe the victims of the abuse will find closure in the investigation.
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