UNITED KINGDOM
Manx Radio
Thursday, August 4th, 2016
Dame Lowell Goddard has resigned as Chair of the Independent Inquiry into Child Sexual Abuse, the Home Secretary has confirmed.
It comes amid reports she spent three months on holiday or abroad in her first year in the £500,000 job.
The Home Secretary, Amber Rudd, reassured victims of abuse that “the work of the inquiry will continue without delay and a new chair will be appointed”.
Dame Goddard, a New Zealand judge, was appointed after two previous chairwomen quit.
The inquiry was established in 2014 to look at claims of a cover up by the establishment, after allegations a paedophile ring operated in Westminster in the 1980s.
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