VATICAN CITY
Chicago Tribune

Reuters

7:52 a.m. CDT, October 25, 2012

VATICAN CITY (Reuters) – Paolo Gabriele, Pope Benedict’s former butler who was convicted this month for stealing papal documents and leaking them to the media, will be moved from house arrest to a Vatican jail cell, the Vatican said on Thursday.

A statement said Gabriele would moved later on Thursday to the Vatican’s police station to carry out the rest of his 18-month sentence.

The Vatican said the decision to end house arrest for Gabriele, who has been living with his family in their apartment in the Vatican, was taken after both the defense and the prosecution decided not to appeal the sentence.