AUSTRALIA
The Recorder
By Bevan Shields
Nov. 16, 2012
A NOTORIOUS child sex offender, the former priest Brian Spillane, has launched a bid to quash his conviction by claiming he faced an unfair trial.
Spillane, a former chaplain at Bathurst’s St Stanislaus College, was sentenced to nine years in prison earlier this year for abusing three girls, one as young as eight, in the late 1970s and early 1980s.
Fairfax Regional Media can reveal Spillane’s lawyer, Greg Walsh, has prepared a series of documents outlining why the conviction should be overturned. The case will be heard in the NSW Court of Criminal Appeal in April next year, around the same time the Royal Commission into child sex abuse will be lifting the lid on decades of crime and cover-up.
Spillane’s defence lawyer, Greg Walsh, this week claimed Spillane, 69, was wrongly convicted.
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