UNITED KINGDOM
BBC News
By Tom Symonds
Home Affairs correspondent
The reason for Dame Lowell Goddard’s resignation as chairwoman of the independent inquiry into child sexual abuse has not been made clear, but suggestions she had difficult relations with officials have begun to emerge.
Several sources have told me there has been “tension” with one suggesting that Justice Goddard felt she was not getting the support and “loyalty” her job required.
There has been no comment from anyone on the independent inquiry and victims’ representatives have been locked in a meeting expected to take much of the day.
One source with knowledge of the inquiry’s operations said they did not believe Justice Goddard’s departure was linked to the disruption caused to her family life by moving to the UK.
This source said she had moved fully to this country from her native New Zealand, including buying furniture. Her husband is also understood to be in Britain too.
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