AUSTRALIA
Sky News
The former deputy director of the Catholic Education Office says he was shocked and angry when he heard Cardinal George Pell say he was deceived by the CEO during his time in Melbourne.
Education consultant Peter Annett was deputy director of the Archdiocese of Melbourne’s education office when Dr Pell was auxiliary bishop with responsibility for education.
On Wednesday he told the child abuse royal commission at one stage in the late 80s a number one priority for the office was that notorious paedophile priest Peter Searson be removed from the parish of Doveton.
Mr Annett is one of four former education officers responding to evidence given by Cardinal Pell from Rome in March that the CEO withheld information about Searson.
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