Abuse inquiry judge got £90,000 payoff

UNITED KINGDOM
The Times

Sean O’Neill, Chief Reporter
October 11 2016
The Times

The judge who resigned as head of the national public inquiry into child abuse received a severance package worth about £90,000, the Home Office said last night.

Dame Justice Lowell Goddard was paid two months’ salary plus allowances, amounting to more than £80,000, plus the price of two business-class tickets back to New Zealand for her and her husband after she suddenly quit the inquiry in August.

The severance deal was approved by Amber Rudd, the home secretary.

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