UNITED KINGDOM
Derby Telegraph
FORMER Derby Catholic priest Francis Paul Cullen – who was on the run for 20 years – has today admitted sexually abusing seven children – four of them in Derby.
Ross Browning is the editor of Canarian Weekly, an English language newspaper in Tenerife, where Cullen lived until his extradition last year.
He said he looked into Cullen’s life following his arrest last year.
Mr Browning said: “Tenerife, especially when this man came to live here 20 years ago, is the sort of place that your can keep your head down and remain pretty much anonymous if you want to.
“People have told me he was the sort of man who very much kept himself to himself who you might see having an occasional drink or going for a walk.
“But people did not get to know him.”
Mr Browning said he discovered that Cullen used an alias – Raul Martin – and lived, until 2007, in an apartment in Los Cristianos.
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