Maria James’s Thornbury bookshop murder: Court hears chilling sightings of priest

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On the day Maria James was murdered behind a Melbourne bookshop, one witness recalls seeing a priest covered in blood.

Maria James’s young son, Adam, told her before she was killed that local priest Father Anthony Bongiorno had sexually abused him, the Coroners Court of Victoria has heard.

Maria James with her youngest son Adam pictured at the Grampians in January 1980, six months before she was killed. He then saw a man dressed in black with a white priest’s collar appear about 10 metres away on the church’s grass, he said.“He had blood on both hands, and he had blood up near his ear and on the side of his neck.”He asked if he was all right and offered to go and fetch a first aid kit from his vehicle.Father Anthony Bongiorno was seen at Maria James’s bookshop, and covered in blood at St Mary’s church, on the day of her murder, two witnesses told a court.

She heard about the murder when she watched the news that night but didn’t think her sighting was relevant until her partner heard on ABC podcast Trace that Father Bongiorno could have been involved.She also said she was “100 per cent” sure the man she had seen matched photos of Father Bongiorno.

 

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