Priest apologises for ‘idiotic’ comments on Jill Meagher

A Catholic priest in Australia has apologised to the family of Jill Meagher after he told primary school children the Irish woman that if she had been “more faith-filled” she would have been at home in bed the night she was raped and murdered.

The Catholic Archdiocese of Melbourne had already apologised for the remarks which were described as “idiotic” by the family of Ms Meagher.

The 29-year-old Irish woman was raped and murdered by Adrian Ernest Bayley in Melbourne in 2012. Bayley is now serving a life sentence for the crime and was recently sentenced over three more rapes he committed.