Notorious paedophile Brian Joseph Spillane sentenced for 16 child sex offences

By Melanie Kembrey
Updated February 16 2017 - 6:14pm, first published 5:29pm
Former priest Brian Spillane outside court in 2008. Photo: Dean Sewell
Former priest Brian Spillane outside court in 2008. Photo: Dean Sewell
Damien Sheridan with his son Zakarie. Photo: Louise Kennerley
Damien Sheridan with his son Zakarie. Photo: Louise Kennerley

Serial paedophile and former priest Brian Joseph Spillane​ has been sentenced to another 13 years in jail for abusing young boys, many of whom were homesick and turned to him for help, at a private Catholic boarding school.

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