UNITED KINGDOM
Daily Mail
By Rebecca Camber, Crime Correspondent For The Daily Mail
The disgraced former head of the child abuse inquiry charged taxpayers almost £6,000 to fly treasured possessions including a vase 11,400 miles across the world from New Zealand.
Dame Lowell Goddard, who became Britain’s highest paid civil servant when she took up the role as the third chair of the beleaguered inquiry, demanded that a favourite vase and other personal items be flown from her home in Wellington to Britain.
The New Zealand judge, who was paid £360,000 – double the wages of the Prime Minister – billed the public purse £5,812 to fly out cherished possessions which she claimed she could not be parted from.
She said she needed to have the objects in her flat in Kensington, West London, for which taxpayers were also paying £119,207 in rent and utility bills.
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