Pell to return to court to appeal sex abuse conviction

AUSTRALIA
The Tablet

June 3, 2019

By Mark Bowling

The appeal will be broadcast live from the Victoria Supreme Court in Melbourne, and will be accessible on the court’s website around the world

Jailed Cardinal George Pell, Australia’s highest-ranking Catholic, will return to court on 5 and 6 June for an appeal against his conviction for sexually abusing two Melbourne choirboys in the 1990s.

In recognition of the high public interest in the case, the appeal will be broadcast live from the Victoria Supreme Court in Melbourne, and will be accessible on the court’s website around the world.

Lawyers for Cardinal Pell, 77, who is three months into his six-year gaol term, will argue his guilty verdict was “unreasonable”.

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