The Australian’s Legal Affairs Contributor Chris Merritt says Cardinal George Pell died an innocent man despite the frenzied “lynch mob” which opposed him.
Cardinal George Pell has died at the age of 81 with Vatican Media confirming he passed away in Rome after complications from hip replacement surgery.
In 2017 Pell was charged and found guilty of historical child sex abuse but the conviction was later overturned by the bench of the High Court.“Cardinal Pell died an innocent man,” Mr Merritt told Sky News Australia. “This might come as a terrible shock to those who were gripped by the frenzy – particularly in Victoria – that effectively amounted to a lynch mob before his trial and unsuccessful appeal in the Victorian Court of Appeal.
“The fact that an old, sick man spent a long time in prison and was eventually shown by the highest court in the land to be innocent, it still, it ranks up there with Lindy Chamberlain, as one of the greatest miscarriages of justice we’ve ever seen in this country.”
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