The Chronicle

Stabbing charge

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A MAN aged 72 has been charged with stabbing a priest during Sunday mass in Melbourne. Father Tomy Kalathoor Mathew, 48, was treated in hospital for a neck wound.

He was stabbed about 11am as he began to deliver mass in Fawkner North.

The charged man, from Fawkner, was bailed to face Broadmeado­ws Magistrate­s Court on June 13.

He was taken to hospital for assessment.

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