ADELAIDE (AUSTRALIA)
Australian Broadcasting Corporation
December 5, 2017
By Lucy Carter and Giselle Wakatama
Archbishop Philip Wilson has appeared in court in Newcastle on one count of covering up an indictable offence after being declared fit to stand trial.
He flew into Newcastle today from Adelaide for the magistrate-alone trial.
The 67-year-old is accused of covering up abuse by priest Jim Fletcher in the Hunter Valley in the 1970s.
The Adelaide Archbishop is the most senior Catholic in the world to be charged with this offence.
Last week, Archbishop Wilson’s legal team told Newcastle Local Court their client had just had a pacemaker put in and had received an Alzheimer’s diagnosis after a fall.
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