The New Zealand judge who quit as head of the massive public inquiry into child abuse has received a pay off worth £90,000. 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.
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.