AUSTRALIA
The Guardian
Australian Associated Press
Sunday 9 July 2017
Cardinal George Pell has returned to Australia to face historical sexual abuse charges in Melbourne at the end of the month.
The 76-year-old was pictured early on Monday morning leaving Sydney airport after flying in from the Vatican via Singapore.
On 30 June Victoria police charged the cardinal, a former Melbourne and Sydney archbishop and Ballarat priest, with multiple sexual offences.
Australia’s most senior Catholic insists he is innocent and has said he is looking forward to fighting the charges in court.
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