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.

George Pell sentenced to six years in prison for child abuse

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.

Cardinal George Pell arrives at the County Court in Melbourne this week. Photo: AP/Andy Brownbill

Court reveals George Pell's appeal claims

George Pell is arguing his child sex abuse convictions should be overturned or he should receive a retrial, because of a “fundamental irregularity” that prevented him entering a not guilty plea in front of his jury.

Who is the Adelaide lawyer at the centre of the Pell trial?

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.

Judge hits at George Pell's "callous, brazen" offences

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.