There are issues in the victim's account that “cannot be walked away from”, Pell's lawyer said.
It was impossible for the jury who found George Pell guilty of sexually assaulting two choirboys to harbour no doubts about whether or not the cardinal was guilty, Pell’s lawyer has told an appeal court.
Six weeks later, in February 1997, Pell indecently assaulted J by pushing him up against a wall and squeezing his testicle, as he walked through a corridor past the priest's sacristy. He forcibly argued that the assaults had been demonstrated to be impossible, that Pell's defence team had submitted"strong, credible and undispelled alibi evidence" and that the jury simply could not have excluded the possibility that Pell was innocent.It was obvious the jury had believed J over Pell, but the matter did not end there, Walker said.One of those issues, Walker said, was that on J’s own account, the corridor assault happened in 1996, not 1997.
“It’s impossible for that answer to be true and the complainant’s account of the first episode to also be true.”
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