UNITED KINGDOM
Daily Mail
By JAMES TAPSFIELD, POLITICAL EDITOR FOR MAILONLINE
The government’s child sex abuse inquiry is too big to uncover the truth, its former chairman has warned.
Dame Lowell Goddard, who resigned last month, delivered a damning assessment of the probe’s prospect of success.
The New Zealand high court judge is the third chief to quit the inquiry – which was set up amid claims of an establishment cover-up following allegations that a paedophile ring operated in Westminster in the 1980s.
The wide-ranging review was launched in by Theresa May 2014.
Baroness Butler-Sloss and Dame Fiona Woolf had previously stepped aside from the job.
In a letter to the Home Affairs Select Committee, Dame Lowell said: ‘With the benefit of hindsight, or more realistically the benefit of experience, it is clear there is an inherent problem in the sheer scale and size of the inquiry (which its budget does not match) and therefore in its manageability.’
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