Cardinal George Pell has had his child sexual abuse convictions overturned. {Source: BBC]

Australia’s highest court has overturned Cardinal George Pell’s convictions for child sexual abuse.

The ex-Vatican treasurer, 78, had been the most senior Catholic figure ever jailed for such crimes.

In 2018, a jury found he abused two boys in Melbourne in the 1990s.

But the High Court of Australia quashed that verdict on Tuesday, meaning the cardinal will immediately stop serving a six-year jail sentence.