UNITED KINGDOM
Telegraph
Robert Mendick, chief reporter
30 SEPTEMBER 2016
Victims are set to withdraw their support from the national inquiry into historic child sex abuse in protest over the suspension and subsequent resignation of the senior lawyer in charge.
A prominent abuse survivor said he and about 100 other victims will stop working with the inquiry unless Ben Emmerson QC is reinstated.
Andi Lavery, of Catholic survivor group White Flowers Alba, accused the inquiry’s chairman Alexis Jay of being “out of her depth” and demanded she be replaced by Mr Emmerson.
The group has issued a legal ultimatum, giving the inquiry a week to justify Mr Emmerson’s departure.
Lawyers acting for the group have sent a legal letter to the inquiry accusing it of ‘dehumanising’ the victims by forcing out Mr Emmerson, adding: “Our clients consider this treatment of them to be a continuation of the abuse they suffered in the past.”
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