VICTORIA (AUSTRALIA)
The Herald Sun
February 20, 2019
By Matthew Kelly
NSW police minister and former detective Troy Grant has recalled his investigation into complaints of abuse by former Catholic priest Vincent Ryan.
Mr Grant was stationed at Cessnock in the mid-1990s as part of the Northern Region Crime Squad and Child Protection Team.
He told Sydney District Court on Wednesday that he interviewed Mr Ryan in 1995 after two boys complained they had been abused by him while he was parish priest at St Josephs The Junction about 20 years earlier.
Mr Ryan, 79,is standing trial on charges of abusing a boy at The Junction in the mid 1970s and another at Cessnock in the early 1990s.
He has pleaded not guilty to five charges against the boys, including indecent assault on a person under 16 and attempted sexual intercourse on a person between 10 and 16.
Mr Grant recalled Ryan had become upset while being interviewed about three complainants at Cooma jail in 1996.
“He admitted to committing the offences but he became upset when we went into details,” Mr Grant told the court.
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