Philip Wilson: former archbishop's quashed conviction won't be appealed by DPP

NSW attorney general says he has requested independent legal advice after DPP’s decision

The New South Wales director of public prosecutions will not be appealing against the decision of a judge who quashed former archbishop Philip Wilson’s conviction for covering up child sex abuse by a pedophile priest.

A magistrate convicted Wilson earlier this year but district court judge Roy Ellis in early December ordered the clergyman be discharged.

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