UNITED KINGDOM
Daily Mail
By Tom Mctague and Matt Chorley for MailOnline
A new judge-led inquiry into historic child abuse will investigate allegations from before the 1970s, Theresa May announced today.
The Home Secretary announced a new four person panel would serve alongside Justice Lowell Goddard, a New Zealand judge, to investigate allegations that celebrities and other VIPs were involved in child abuse which was covered up by the establishment.
Mrs May said she had agreed to remove any cut-off date for claims which can be investigated by the probe.
In a written statement to MPs, Mrs May said the inquiry would have ‘access to all relevant information’.
Mrs May scrapped the original panel after two chairs were forced to stand down over their links to establishment figures including the former Home Secretary Leon Brittan.
The Home Secretary announced the new panel would be made up of Professor Alexis Jay, who led the inquiry into child sexual exploitation in Rotherham, Drusilla Sharpling, Ivor Frank and Malcolm Evans.
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