One of George Pell’s accusers has accepted the high court’s decision to overturn his child sex abuse conviction – saying the law is ‘weighed in favour of the accused’. Known as Witness J, the former choirboy came forward after another accuser died in 2014 and claimed he too was abused by the cardinal. He said … Read more
One of George Pell’s accusers has accepted the high court’s decision to overturn his child sex abuse conviction – saying the law is ‘weighed in favour of the accused’. Known as Witness J, the former choirboy came forward after another accuser died in 2014 and claimed he too was abused by the cardinal. He said … Read more
They were given to a jury to examine, offered to three Supreme Court judges to try on, and used by George Pell to prove he had not molested two choirboys. The heavy vestments worn by the cardinal made it impossible for him to have exposed himself to the boys in Melbourne’s St Patrick’s Cathedral, he … Read more