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HM Courts and Tribunals, which is governed by the department, said a search warrant was withdrawn nine years after Cullen went missing because it was believed he could not realistically be found.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