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The New Zealand former head of the United Kingdom’s inquiry into child sexual abuse has again been slammed by UK MPs and warned she’ll be hauled in front of them if she ever steps foot in the country again.
Dame Lowell Goddard has been criticised for refusing to appear before a committee of MPs looking into the work of the troubled inquiry despite receiving almost $NZ840,500 a year in pay and allowances while she was its chair.
She resigned abruptly in August after just 18 months.
The Commons Home Affairs Committee report said Dame Lowell’s failure to appear in front of it was “disgraceful”.
“We regard this refusal as falling well below the standards we would expect of any public servant,” it said in the report.
“Should Dame Lowell travel to the UK in the future, we would invoke parliamentary procedures to seek to summon her to give oral evidence.”
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