UNITED KINGDOM
ITV
Dame Lowell Goddard quit her role as chairwoman of the Inquiry into historic Child Sexual Abuse partly because it was a “lonely existence”, Home Secretary Amber Rudd has said.
Speaking before MPs at the Home Affairs Select Commitee, Rudd said Dame Lowell’s full resignation letter outlined the areas where the New Zealand judge felt she could not deliver.
“I think she went…because she found it too much for her, and although she could contribute to it and there was some good work done in the past year, ultimately she found it too lonely,” Rudd said.
“She was a long way from home and she decided to step down,” the home secretary added.
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