
What we know today, Thursday October 1
Welcome to your serving of the day’s breaking news from South Australia, the nation and abroad. Follow this post for live updates through the day.
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George Pell, Australia’s most senior Catholic, has been sentenced to six years jail for sexually abusing two choirboys while he was the Archbishop of Melbourne in the late 1990s.
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As he spoke the words that sent Cardinal George Pell to a basement cell yesterday – “take him away” – it marked another extraordinary episode in the stellar legal career of Adelaide-born-and-trained Judge Peter Kidd, known for his work on high-profile cases prosecuting murderers, drug traffickers and war criminals.
UPDATED | Cardinal George Pell has been taken into custody and will spend his first night in a jail cell for sexually abusing two choirboys in a Melbourne cathedral.
As Cardinal George Pell ascended the senior ranks of the Catholic Church, he kept secret a dark history of sexually molesting young boys.
Cardinal George Pell faces a lengthy jail term after being found guilty of violent sex assaults against two young choirboys.