VATICAN CITY
Irish Times
A Vatican court today found Claudio Sciarpelletti, a computer expert, guilty of obstruction of justice in the investigation of leaks of sensitive papal documents to the media by Pope Benedict’s former butler.
The same court, which last month convicted Paolo Gabriele, the Pope’s former butler, gave Sciarpelletti a two-month suspended sentence.
Sciarpelletti had been charged with aiding and abetting Gabriele in leaking the document.
But the court decided that he was guilty only of obstruction of justice because he had changed his version of events several times during the investigation.
Sciarpelletti’s sentence was reduced from four to two months because he had no criminal record and suspended because of his long service with the Vatican. The defence said it will appeal.
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