NEW ZEALAND
New Zealand Herald
By Kurt Bayer
Former Catholic brother and convicted paedophile Bernard McGrath will fight extradition to Australia where he is wanted on 252 sexual abuse charges.
The former St John of God brother returned to New Zealand from Sri Lanka voluntarily last month after the new charges emerged.
In 2006, McGrath was jailed for five years for sexually abusing boys at Marylands School in Christchurch in the 1970s, and was paroled in 2008.
The 65-year-old travelled from New Zealand to Sri Lanka earlier this year and was reportedly living on a tea plantation in the highlands.
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