News Corp columnists declare Cardinal Pell innocent and 'a scapegoat'

Andrew Bolt and Miranda Devine say Cardinal George Pell’s conviction was wrongful and ‘accusations are implausible’

Rupert Murdoch’s Australian mastheads have published several prominent articles defending the convicted child molester George Pell and casting doubt on the jury’s unanimous verdict in Melbourne’s county court.

News Corp columnists Andrew Bolt and Miranda Devine led the charge in Wednesday’s papers, characterising the guilty verdict as a wrongful conviction and likening it to when Lindy Chamberlain was wrongfully jailed for murdering her baby Azaria, and describing it as the OJ Simpson case “in reverse”.

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