AUSTRALIA
AAP
April 1, 2020
By Karen Sweeney
Disgraced Cardinal George Pell will learn next week whether his final bid for freedom has been successful.
The High Court will hand down its judgment in his case in Brisbane on Tuesday morning.
Pell is one year into a six-year jail sentence handed down after a jury found him guilty in 2018 of sexually abusing two 13-year-old choirboys at Melbourne’s St Patrick’s Cathedral in 1996.
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