UNITED KINGDOM
The Times
Sean O’Neill, Andrew Norfolk
October 17 2016
The Times
Three senior figures at the national child abuse inquiry will be questioned by MPs tomorrow about the collapse of their working relationship with Dame Lowell Goddard, its former chairwoman.
Alexis Jay, Ivor Frank and Drusilla Sharpling were members of the inquiry’s panel of experts when Dame Lowell abruptly resigned from the inquiry in August.
They are understood to have been among a group of officials who reported their concerns about the New Zealand judge’s conduct at a secret meeting with Mark Sedwill, the Home Office’s top civil servant, on July 29.
The following week — on the day The Times detailed Dame Lowell’s long overseas absences from the inquiry — panel members and others are said to have confronted the judge to tell her that her position was untenable. She resigned immediately.
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