The third chairman appointed to the independent inquiry into historic child sex abuse claims, who was on a salary of half a million pounds a year, has stepped down after revelations that she had spent the first three months on the job overseas or on holiday.
The criminal investigation into child grooming in Rotherham is set to run for eight years, officials have revealed. The local MP has slammed the time-frame as “too long.” So far just eleven people have been convicted in relation to the
A bare 12 months into the police investigation into Rotherham child sex exploitation (CSE) allegations and one startling new fact has emerged: it may cost nearly £7m this year alone as it potentially becomes ‘the single largest CSE investigation ever undertaken in
More than 160 police officers are under investigation in the Rotherham abuse scandal over allegations they systematically ignored complaints of widespread child sexual exploitation. The Independent Police Complaints Commission (IPCC) has already identified 60 officers as part of a major
The long-awaited UK inquiry into allegations of historic child sex abuse in establishment circles has barely begun, yet already names are being revealed of senior politicians who may figure in deliberations. One is the Westminster MP protected by MI5 when suspected of child
It has been disclosed that Justice Lowell Goddard, the New Zealand high court judge appointed to chair the UK’s historic child sex abuse inquiry, will receive a pay package worth £500,000 a year. With the inquiry predicted to last at least
