AUSTRALIA
ABC News
A Newcastle court has heard there are around 40 witnesses in their case against Catholic Archbishop Philip Wilson, who’s been charged with concealing child sexual abuse.
Adelaide’s Archbishop Philip Wilson was excused from his second Newcastle local court appearance this morning.
He has previously pleaded not guilty to concealing the serious indictable offence of another person.
The charge relates to when Wilson was an assistant parish priest in East Maitland in the 1970s, and worked with paedophile priest James Fletcher.
The court today heard the brief of evidence, which is more than 2,000 pages long, has been served.
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