FILE PHOTO - Vatican Treasurer Cardinal George Pell is surrounded by Australian police as he leaves the Melbourne Magistrates Court in Australia, October 6, 2017. REUTERS/Mark Dadswell/File Picture
CANBERRA (Reuters) - Lawyers for George Pell began a final bid on Wednesday to overturn the former Vatican treasurer's conviction for sexually abusing two choirboys, arguing in Australia's highest court that he could not have committed the offences.
Cardinal Pell, 78, began serving a six-year prison sentence a year ago, becoming the highest ranking Catholic clergyman worldwide to be jailed for child sex offences.
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