Paedophile Francis Cullen: No Record of Who Cancelled Priest's Arrest Warrant

Nottingham Post
February 27, 2014

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Paedophile Francis Cullen: No record of who cancelled priest's warrant

THE Ministry of Justice has no record of which judge or magistrate decided to call off the search for on-the-run Nottingham paedophile priest Francis Cullen.

HM Courts and Tribunals, which is governed by the department, said a search warrant was withdrawn nine years after Cullen went missing because it was believed he could not realistically be found.

A spokesman said "a judge or a magistrate" would have signed a document calling off the warrant after the priest skipped bail in 1991.

But records at Nottingham Magistrates' Court do not show who was sitting on the day it was signed.