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George Pell decision instrumental in sex offender Robert Glen Sirl's rape acquittal

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Updated August 30 2020 - 1:31pm, first published July 15 2020 - 3:00am
Robert Glen Sirl, who has had convictions for rape and recklessly inflicting grievous bodily harm overturned.
Robert Glen Sirl, who has had convictions for rape and recklessly inflicting grievous bodily harm overturned.

A sex offender has had two convictions overturned and his jail sentence reduced, after a court found there was "a significant possibility" that he was innocent of committing a violent rape.

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Blake Foden was a court reporter at The Canberra Times.

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