The judge was unusually vicious in his words (and apparently made some dreadful mistakes during the trial that form part of the appeal).
He was correct about the sheer nastiness and danger of mobs but ignored
the lynch mobs of the media who have been relentless and vicious.
And few words are said about the sheer corruption of
Victorian Police (all those
Underbelly films just showed a faction of it)who decided to Get Pell on no evidence and set about advertising- trawling - for "victims" long before Pell was charged.
# A Royal Commission soon to start on how Vic Police have been running about 12 defense solicitors as informants who have been feeding the cops information about their clients for around 20 years. Expect masses of resignations and dozens of Appeals by convicted murderers, drug runners etc.
## some of those solicitors, or indeed cops may never make it to give evidence. The highly Organised Crime gangs in Victoria- with heavy Italian
Mafia involvement fly in contract killers who do the job and are on a plane back to Sicily that day.
Even then only ONE Pell complainant came forward in 2015 ( the few others were tossed out in the Magistrate's court as either fantasists, liars, impossible to have happened and patently absurd)
Still one stuck despite a mass of evidence to the opposite including a 78 year old highly respected Verger who gave evidence that he accompanied Pell the entire time he was at the Cathedral as ..that was his job.
( I hear Barney's down at the local celebrating and buying the pub rounds of drinks
)