Published: December 05, 2018
Catholic primate, who has been on home detention for four months, is cleared on appeal after judge finds reasonable doubt
Former archbishop Philip Wilson has won his appeal against a conviction of covering up child sex abuse by a paedophile priest in the New South Wales Hunter region to protect the Catholic church.
Newcastle district court judge Roy Ellis upheld Wilson’s appeal on Thursday, finding there was reasonable doubt the clergyman had ever committed the crime.
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