The chair of the Home Affairs Select Committee has attacked retired New Zealand high court judge Dame Lowell Goddard QC for refusing to give oral evidence on the Independent Inquiry into Child Sex Abuse (IICSA).
In a letter dated 7 November, Goddard turned on the Home Office for not doing more to protect her during her tenure heading the public inquiry. ‘I am disappointed that there has been no government defence of me in England, despite the fact that information refuting some of the more serious allegations has been held by the Home Office,’ she said.
