'If it’s a fantasy, then at some point one would expect the cracks would appear.'
George Pell’s surviving victim was not a liar, nor a fantasist, and the jury had good reason to accept his evidence and find Pell guilty of sexual abuse, a court has heard.
Crown barrister Chris Boyce QC began his argument by stating to Chief Justice Anne Ferguson, President of the Court of Appeal Chris Maxwell, and Justice Mark Weinberg: “The complainant was a very compelling witness. He was clearly not a liar. He was not a fantasist.” The jury in Pell’s trial believed the complainant’s account of the two boys being discovered by Pell drinking sacramental wine in the priest's sacristy — a dressing and preparation room for people involved in the church service — after Sunday mass in December 1996. Pell orally raped the complainant and indecently assaulted the two boys.
“The responses you see there and the manner in which they’re delivered, at the end of those, one puts down one’s pen and stares blankly at the screen and is moved,” Boyce said.Boyce also argued that the complainant’s knowledge of the sacristy was compelling on two counts: he knew the layout of the room, and he knew that at the time the archbishop, who usually had his own sacristy, was using the priest’s sacristy due to renovations.
The proceedings are being publicly live streamed by the Court of Appeal, but with a 15-second delay, and the name was successfully cut from the broadcast before going to air.
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