Recently acquitted Cardinal George Pell is reportedly facing fresh criminal investigations less than a week after being freed from prison.
The Victorian Police have been secretly investigating the claims according to an exclusive report from the
He has spent 405 days behind bars and said it was “not a sign of a civilisation where you have guilt by association.” “I believe in free speech and I acknowledge the right of those who differ from me to state their views,” he said.
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EXCLUSIVE: Cardinal George Pell says charges laid by Victorian Police were ‘extraordinary’ | Sky News AustraliaCardinal George Pell has revealed he “wouldn’t be entirely surprised” if Victorian Police continued searching for attempts to prosecute him in the future. \n\nIn an exclusive world-first television interview with Sky News Australia presenter Andrew Bolt, Cardinal Pell talks candidly about the numerous charges laid against him, all of which have been dropped or dismissed. \n\nLast week, Cardinal Pell’s conviction was overturned by Australia’s highest court in a unanimous decision, after having spent 405 days in jail following an initial ruling which had found him guilty in 2018.\n\nCardinal Pell said he “didn’t know how you explain it,” but the 26 charges laid against him by Victorian Police “were certainly extraordinary”. \n\nGeorge Pell will speak exclusively to Andrew Bolt in his first TV interview since being released from prison on Tuesday night at 7pm on The Bolt Report, only on Sky News Australia.\n\n\n
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'There are no winners' in Pell saga | Sky News AustraliaEditor-at-large at The Australian Paul Kelly says the lesson from the Cardinal George Pell saga is “there can’t be justice delivered to the victims on the basis of injustice delivered to Pell”.\n\nGeorge Pell was convicted in 2018 of assaulting two boys in the 1990s, a decision that was upheld in the Victorian Court of Appeal in 2019.\n\nHowever, it was quashed by the High Court last week, ensuring Carginal Pell was able to walk free from prison after spending 405 days incarcerated in Victoria's Barwon prison. \n\nMr Kelly told Sky News this scandal reflected poorly on many within the Victorian justice system.\n\n“There are no winners,' he said.\n\n“The conclusion from what we’ve been able to see is that this has been a comprehensive failure.'\n\n“A failure by the Victorian police who didn’t do their job properly and a failure by the Victorian DPP who continued with a flawed case”.\n\n\nImage: News Corp Australia\n
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EXCLUSIVE: Cardinal George Pell says charges laid by Victorian Police were ‘extraordinary’ | Sky News AustraliaCardinal George Pell has revealed he “wouldn’t be entirely surprised” if Victorian Police continued searching for attempts to prosecute him in the future. \n\nIn an exclusive world-first television interview with Sky News Australia presenter Andrew Bolt, Cardinal Pell talks candidly about the numerous charges laid against him, all of which have been dropped or dismissed. \n\nLast week, Cardinal Pell’s conviction was overturned by Australia’s highest court in a unanimous decision, after having spent 405 days in jail following an initial ruling which had found him guilty in 2018.\n\nCardinal Pell said he “didn’t know how you explain it,” but the 26 charges laid against him by Victorian Police “were certainly extraordinary”. \n\nGeorge Pell will speak exclusively to Andrew Bolt in his first TV interview since being released from prison on Tuesday night at 7pm on The Bolt Report, only on Sky News Australia.\n\n\n
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Pell public pile-on 'ugly and distressing' | Sky News AustraliaSenior politicians who know the “pile-on” against Cardinal George Pell is wrong, must cease their “cowardly silence' and air their concerns, according to Sky News host Andrew Bolt.\n\nAndrew Bolt said he endured 'vicious' public ridicule for advocating on behalf of Cardinal Pell, and said if the High Court ruled against the former senior Catholic he would have been driven to resign from Sky News because he 'couldn't go on.'\n \n“It was really ugly and distressing and I thought if the High Court ruled against him, I was rehearsing my resignation speech on Sky,” he said.\n\n“But every time I felt low, I said to my wife quite often, whatever I am going through is just a drop in the Pacific Ocean compared to the fact an innocent man is in jail for a horrible crime he did not commit.”\n\nThe Victorian judiciary and police have been criticised after the High Court quashed Cardinal Pell’s conviction on historical child sex offences earlier this month.\n\nThe unanimous decision delivered by the justices was scathing, saying the jury in the 2018 trial should have had “reasonable doubt” of Pell’s guilt after reviewing the facts of the case.\n\nIt also was very critical of the Victorian Court of Appeal, which upheld Cardinal Pell’s conviction in 2019.\n\nMr Bolt said he was struck “by the screaming mob” who attacked anyone who supported Cardinal Pell.\n\n“There was this added viciousness here, the screaming angry mob, that Pell had to walk through, that Pell was made to walk through going to his committal hearings.\n\n'The hounding of anyone who spoke up for him, that so few people who did, people who know better, but they didn’t dare.\n\n'There are politicians who know that this was wrong but still don’t dare speak, the viciousness is so profound.”\n\nHe said everyone should be concerned that the Victorian police, the Court of Criminal Appeal and the ABC had a 'sinister' grievance against the Cardinal.\n\n'Surely some Liberals should end their cowardly silence and speak up, t
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