The only question on the agenda today was how long the man who once bestrode the Catholic world will be living behind bars
The script was bare. “Take him away, please,” said Judge Peter Kidd at 3.10pm and Cardinal George Pell picked up his stick, nodded to the guards fore and aft and walked through a blank door at the end of the dock into the underworld.
Nothing his barrister, Robert Richter, argued could have saved Pell from this fate.
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