UNITED KINGDOM
Daily Mail
By Rebecca Camber, Crime Correspondent For The Daily Mail
The official inquiry into child sex abuse could run for a decade – and cost taxpayers hundreds of millions of pounds, it emerged last night.
The probe is receiving up to 100 fresh allegations every week – a quarter of them referred to the police.
The largest inquiry in British legal history had already been earmarked to last around five years.
But a lawyer for some of the alleged victims yesterday said it could now take ‘at least ten years’.
It sparked fury from campaigners and raised fears the probe could become ‘another Chilcot’, the Iraq war inquiry that took six years to complete – longer than British troops were in the country.
The independent child abuse inquiry has already spent almost £18million of public money and has yet to publicly question a single witness or victim.
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