The New Zealand judge who quit as head of the massive public inquiry
into child abuse has received a pay off worth £90,000 ($156,000). Dame Lowell Goddard, who was in the post for just 18 months, had been on
a total salary and benefits package worth almost £500,000 ($870,000).
Dame Lowell became the third chairwoman to walk out on the multi-million pound inquiry in August, throwing the beleaguered probe into a new crisis. Her £80,000 severance, plus business class flights to New Zealand, was agreed by Home Secretary Amber Rudd and brought her total payments to almost £700,000 for 18 months in charge of an inquiry that has not yet heard any evidence.
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Dame Lowell became the third chairwoman to walk out on the multi-million pound inquiry in August, throwing the beleaguered probe into a new crisis. Her £80,000 severance, plus business class flights to New Zealand, was agreed by Home Secretary Amber Rudd and brought her total payments to almost £700,000 for 18 months in charge of an inquiry that has not yet heard any evidence.
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