Pedophile priest turned up at house after NSW teen commits suicide asking if he left a note

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After 13-year-old Andrew Nash took his own life, a now-notorious pedophile Marist brother turned up to his house and asked his mother whether the boy had left a note.

More than four decades later, the Newcastle boy’s 90-year-old mother believes the brother had been sexually abusing her son, a royal commission has heard.

Audrey Nash on Tuesday recalled pulling over a taxi driver and telling him to get an ambulance and a priest after finding her son hanging in his bedroom in October, 1974.

Three priests and three Marist brothers, including Andrew’s class master Brother Romuald, turned up, she said.

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