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Child abuse survivors ‘back total restart’ of Westminster inquiry

Child abuse survivors would support a government decision to scrap its toothless inquiry panel into an alleged ring of Westminster paedophiles and start again, an abuse support group said yesterday.

National Association for People Abused in Childhood chief executive Peter Saunders warned yesterday that if Home Secretary Theresa May’s inquiry did not have the confidence of abuse survivors it would be “meaningless.”

Starting the process again should not be a “huge trauma,” he said.

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