Lawyer admits tearing up priest’s resignation letter

By Ian Kirkwood
Updated August 11 2016 - 2:23pm, first published August 8 2016 - 1:00pm
TRUSTED ADVISER: Solicitor Keith Allen, described as having "the ear of three bishops", after giving evidence on Friday. He resumed in the witness box on Monday morning.
TRUSTED ADVISER: Solicitor Keith Allen, described as having "the ear of three bishops", after giving evidence on Friday. He resumed in the witness box on Monday morning.

A SOLICITOR and former trustee of the Anglican DIocese of Newcastle has admitted tearing up the original 1990 resignation of paedophile priest Stephen Hatley Gray, which was then replaced with one dated the day before Gray was charged with the sexual assault of a 14-year-old boy.

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