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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Politics
Rajeev Syal Home affairs editor

Grooming gang victim quits inquiry panel over ‘condescending language towards survivors’

Woman sits in front of Union flag.
Fiona Goddard was abused by an organised gang in Bradford while living in a children’s home. Photograph: Lucy North/PA

Keir Starmer’s national grooming gang inquiry has suffered a blow after a prominent survivor resigned from its overseeing panel saying she disagreed with a shortlist of two possible chairs.

Fiona Goddard, who was abused by an organised street gang in Bradford while living in a children’s home, stepped down on Monday from the victims survivor liaison panel, voicing concern over political interference and the “condescending and controlling language used towards survivors” during the process.

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