A school principal gave up everything to blow the whistle on a paedophile priest. George Pell hung up on him

‘He rang me up and he said “what do you want?”’: ex-principal Graeme Sleeman recalls the day George Pell called him and then hung up. Photograph: Alberto Pizzoli/AFP/Getty Images

Former Catholic school principal Graeme Sleeman says he still remembers the day George Pell hung up on him.

It was the 1990s and Sleeman was in Grafton, New South Wales, more than 1,500km away from the small Victorian Catholic school he had resigned from in disgust years earlier.