UNITED KINGDOM
Daily Mail
By AMIE GORDON FOR MAILONLINE
Lord Greville Janner’s family have announced they intend to launch legal action to have him removed from the Government’s child sex abuse inquiry.
Daniel Janner QC, the son of the Labour peer who died amid allegations of paedophilia, criticised the ‘disarray’ of the independent inquiry into child sexual abuse following the resignation of its third chairwoman, Dame Lowell Goddard.
He described the allegations against his late father as ‘obscene’, adding a ‘dead and innocent man’ could not defend himself.
This comes as another setback to the £100 million Independent Inquiry into Child Sexual Abuse, after its chair Dame Lowell Goddard left her post on Thursday – hours after Mr Janner had sent an email detailing his plans to take her to court.
Lord Janner, who died aged 87 in December, is alleged to have abused children over a period spanning more than 30 years and dating back to the 1950s.
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