AUSTRALIA
Sky News
Some people are devastated a historic Melbourne church has been gutted by fire, but others are happy to see it burn.
Arson chemists are yet to determine the cause of the suspicious blaze which destroyed St James Church in Brighton early on Monday morning.
The Catholic church, one of Melbourne’s oldest, was attended by notorious priest Ronald Pickering.
Pickering, now dead, was accused of child sex abuse against a number of boys in the 1970s and 1980s but was never convicted.
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