Woman in Vatileaks trial got messages via confession box - book

Italian public relations expert Francesca Chaouqui talks to reporters as she leaves the Vatican at the end of her trial, in Rome, Italy, July 7, 2016. REUTERS/Tony Gentile - RTX2K6IB

ROME (Reuters) - The woman convicted of helping leak Vatican documents says in a new book that an official in a key office of the Holy See left her secret messages in the confession box of a Rome church during the trial.

The episode is one new element in the book "In Peter's Name", by Francesca Chaouqui, who got a 10-month suspended sentence at the end of a sensational eight-month trial dubbed "Vatileaks 2" last July.