Twelve months ago Cardinal George Pell was locked in solitary confinement in Melbourne, ostentatiously handcuffed at every court appearance and coming to terms with the dispiriting news that the eminent legal brains of Victoria’s office of public prosecutions saw ‘no justification’ for the High Court to grant him special leave to appeal against his child sexual abuse convictions.
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