Five times guilty: how George Pell’s child-abusing past caught up with him in courtroom 4.3

By Melissa Davey It was at 3.45pm on Tuesday 11 December that Cardinal George Pell, one of Pope Francis’s most trusted officials and the third most senior Catholic in the world, found out that he would, in all likelihood, be going to jail. Room 4.3 at the county court in Melbourne was silent as the jury foreman …