NSW police review George Pell’s security amid social media threats
NSW police have reviewed the security arrangements surrounding George Pell following a growing number of menacing threats.
NSW police have reviewed the security arrangements surrounding Cardinal George Pell following a growing number of menacing threats against Australia’s highest-ranking Catholic on social media.
Seven officers – including three plainclothes detectives – visited Cardinal Pell on Tuesday afternoon at the Sydney seminary he has been calling home since he was released from prison last week.
The police spent about 10 minutes in Homebush seminary, in the city’s inner-west, before concluding the site was secure.
The visit came as Sky News prepared to broadcast an exclusive interview with Cardinal Pell on Tuesday night.
The 78-year-old was released from jail last Tuesday after being acquitted in the high court on five charges of historical child sexual abuse.
He spent more than 400 days in prison after being found guilty in December 2018, before the high court overturned the verdict.
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