SCOTLAND
Daily Record
KEITH O’Brien has been accused of sexual assaulting a priest on the night he was made a cardinal.
It has emerged that one of the claims against him centres on the night he was awarded the red mitre by Pope John Paul II in 2003.
The complaint, made by a Scottish priest now based in London, had already been reported but it was thought to have dated back to 2001.
However, it emerged yesterday that the priest claims he was groped by Cardinal O’Brien at an event in Scots College in Rome on October 21, 2003.
The priest said he was among a party of clerics who had travelled to see their senior colleague’s elevation at the Vatican.
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