The High Court of Australia has freed Catholic Cardinal George Pell from jail, after overturning his conviction for child sex abuse.
Before being convicted, Pell was the Vatican’s treasurer and one of the pope’s top advisors. He was also the church’s most senior figure in Australia.
But in 2018, a jury found he abused two boys in Melbourne in the 1990s. The court jailed him for six years. However, the High Court of Australia has now quashed that verdict.