Rod Mcguirk
May 28, 2021 - 1:48 AM
CANBERRA, Australia (AP) â An 86-year-old pedophile former Catholic priest came a step closer to deportation to Ireland when a court on Friday upheld a decision to strip him of his Australian citizenship.
Finian Egan has been fighting a five-year legal battle against former Home Affairs Minister Peter Duttonâs decision to cancel his citizenship over the defrocked priestâs criminal record.
Egan initially won an appeal in 2016 in the Administrative Appeals Tribunal, a court that reviews government decisions.
But the Federal Court overturned that decision and a second tribunal hearing last year upheld Duttonâs action.