Pervert priest was ‘arrogant’ in his secret life in Tenerife

UNITED KINGDOM
Nottingham Post

By Martin Naylor and Peter Blackburn

PAEDOPHILE Nottingham priest Francis Cullen was “an arrogant man who thought he was better than others” says a former colleague.

Les Barr worked with the now 85-year-old former Hyson Green Catholic at a newspaper in Tenerife.

He said Cullen was employed to sell advertising for the fortnightly Island Connections newspaper that was sold to English speaking ex-pats and tourists on the holiday island.

But unbeknown to him his colleague was on the run from the police and the courts and had a perverted past that has now been thrust into the spotlight.

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