UNITED KINGDOM
Daily Mail

By JENNY AWFORD FOR MAILONLINE

The senior New Zealand judge flown in to lead the historic child sex abuse inquiry is to receive a pay package worth £500,000 a year plus 10 return flights to her native country, it has been revealed.

Justice Lowell Goddard, who officially opened the inquiry last week, will be paid a salary of £360,000 a year with a rental allowance of £110,000 a year and a £12,000 utility allowance on top.

The Home Office will also fund four business class return flights for the High Court judge and her husband to return to New Zealand plus a further two return flights for family members.

Justice Goddard is expected to receive around £2.5million in pay and allowances over the course of the inquiry, which she said last week is due to run until late 2020.

This means she would be the…