LAWYERS Told of Victim's Helpline Calls

4 BU
August 12, 2016

http://www.4bu.com.au/news/national-news/84620-lawyers-told-of-victims-helpline-calls

Details of confidential phone calls to an Anglican Church abuse helpline were handed over to the legal team defending the priest accused by the caller of being a child sexual predator.

A royal commission inquiry into an apparent web of collusion by some clergy and officials associated with the NSW Anglican Diocese of Newcastle to cover-up child abuse is hearing evidence from Peter Mitchell, a former registrar.

Mr Mitchell, who has spent time in jail for defrauding the diocese of about $193,000 said on Wednesday he produced the helpline information for the legal team defending his "close friend" a priest referred to by the pseudonym CKC.

On Wednesday Mr Mitchell was asked about CKC, a priest who may now face a re-trial for allegedly sexually molesting two brothers CKA and CKB is the 1970s.