Key points
- George Pell was convicted of five child sex offences in December
- He will be sentenced on March 13
- He has withdrawn an application for bail and will remain in custodyPell, 77, been remanded in custody for the first time on five child sex offence charges, which he was convicted of last December.A jury found him guilty of sexually abusing two choirboys when he was archbishop of Melbourne in the late 1990s.Pell will be sentenced on March 13.Pell had been granted bail after his conviction in December last year, because he required knee surgery in Sydney.He will now be taken to the Melbourne Assessment Prison, which sits on the edge of the city's CBD near Southern Cross Station and a few blocks from the County Court.
George Pell has had his bail revoked in the County Court in Melbourne, meaning tonight he will spend his first night behind bars.
