UNITED KINGDOM
Daily Mail
By REBECCA CAMBER, CRIME CORRESPONDENT FOR THE DAILY MAIL
The Home Office was accused of a cover-up last night amid contested claims that the former head of the beleaguered child sexual abuse inquiry made shocking comments about ethnic minorities.
Dame Justice Lowell Goddard, who resigned as head of the national public inquiry into child abuse in August, was facing toxic claims last night that she made racist remarks about multicultural Britain.
The allegations reported by The Times were strenuously denied by the judge, amid suggestions that she was the victim of false slurs.
It raised questions for Prime Minister Theresa May who set up the Independent Inquiry into Child Sexual Abuse when she was Home Secretary and appointed New Zealander Dame Lowell as chairman.
Home Office officials knew of the judge’s allegedly offensive remarks yet failed to act, it was alleged. Dame Lowell is accused of saying Britain had so many paedophiles ‘because it has so many Asian men’.
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