AUSTRALIA
Newcastle Herald
By IAN KIRKWOOD July 29, 2013
Former Nelson Bay parish priest father Robert Searle says the only thing he can remember Jim Fletcher victim AH saying in a drunken outburst was that nobody loved him.
Father Searle was giving evidence on Monday morning at the special commission of inquiry sitting in Newcastle.
In earlier evidence from whistleblowing police officer Peter Fox the commission has heard evidence that AH was yelling about the weird sexual things that priests did to children.
AH’s drunken outburst took place in 1998 and a statement that Father Searle gave to police was made during the Fletcher investigation in 2003.
Asked by counsel for Mr Fox, Greg Willis, whether he had held back any detail in his statement Father Searle said he had not.
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