26 Feb 2019

The journalist who broke the Cardinal Pell sex abuse story.

From Lately, 8:17 pm on 26 February 2019
Cardinal George Pell makes his way through media as he arrives at court in Melbourne on 27 February 2019 for a sentence plea hearing.

Photo: AFP

Lucie Morris-Marr

Lucie Morris-Marr Photo: supplied

Lucie Morris-Marr is the journalist who broke the story on the abuse allegations regarding the Australian cleric Cardinal George Pell back in February 2016.

Today Cardinal Pell, once the third most powerful man in the Vatican and Australia's most senior Catholic, has been found guilty of child sexual offences after a trial in Melbourne.

Lucie has been covering the court case for the New Daily and also CNN. This afternoon after the verdict, she tweeted the following: