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life changing experience. The question is whether the Games will | :00:00. | 3:59:59 | |
deliver a lasting With the news for the East Midlands, | :00:00. | :00:17. | |
I'm Anne Davies. First tonight, the Catholic Church | :00:18. | :00:20. | |
says it has no evidence that a priest sexually abused children as | :00:21. | :00:33. | |
long ago as the late 1950s. Today, Father Francis Paul Cullen, who is | :00:34. | :00:36. | |
85, admitted a catalogue of offences in Derby, Buxton and Nottingham. He | :00:37. | :00:40. | |
also spent more than 20 years on the run in Tenerife. Mike O'Sullivan | :00:41. | :00:43. | |
reports from Derby Crown Court. At Patrick Reed priest, Father | :00:44. | :00:48. | |
Francis Paul Cullen abuse seven younger than is over 34 years. | :00:49. | :00:55. | |
Today, pleading guilty at court, to 21 offences in parishes in Derby, | :00:56. | :01:01. | |
Buxton and Nottingham. His actions were pure evil. Sexual abuse of any | :01:02. | :01:07. | |
person, particularly an innocent child is absolute evil and it cannot | :01:08. | :01:09. | |
be justified in any sense whatsoever. Father Cullen came to | :01:10. | :01:16. | |
Derby in the 1950s to prepare the way for this church, Christ the | :01:17. | :01:23. | |
King. From 1957 into the 1970s he abused for altar boys. He was a | :01:24. | :01:28. | |
charismatic young priest who had been sent in here to set up this | :01:29. | :01:35. | |
parish. And you had no idea about this other side of him? None at | :01:36. | :01:41. | |
all. Well you surprised? Surprise and horrified. The abuse continued | :01:42. | :01:51. | |
in St Anthony Buxton. It targeted a young girl and a teenage girl. He | :01:52. | :01:55. | |
was pictured with Bob Geldof in the 1980s. He retired on the grounds of | :01:56. | :02:03. | |
ill health in October of 1987, returning to Ireland. Just under a | :02:04. | :02:07. | |
year later he said he was well enough to come back. This time, as | :02:08. | :02:12. | |
parish priest at St Mary 's in Nottingham. He abused an 11`year`old | :02:13. | :02:18. | |
altar boy. In September 1991 he retired for the second time on the | :02:19. | :02:22. | |
grounds of ill health. A month later he faced sex abuse charges relating | :02:23. | :02:28. | |
to St Mary 's and jumped bail. The diocese of Nottingham says it do | :02:29. | :02:33. | |
nothing about abuse allegations before the St Mary 's case. All I | :02:34. | :02:38. | |
can say is I have seen absolutely no evidence of a cover`up. I have seen | :02:39. | :02:45. | |
no evidence that his abusive Theatre `` abusive behaviour was reported to | :02:46. | :02:53. | |
the bishop at the time. If victims felt comfortable in coming forward | :02:54. | :02:59. | |
to Derbyshire police, come forward, report it. It will be fully | :03:00. | :03:05. | |
investigated. Further charges could possibly be brought against Father | :03:06. | :03:10. | |
Cullen. Three of the victims are making civil compensation claims | :03:11. | :03:14. | |
against the diocese and the churches resuming its own enquiry into Father | :03:15. | :03:18. | |
Cullen'scareer, and enquiry that will report to the Vatican in a few | :03:19. | :03:23. | |
months. `` and enquiry. As we've heard, Cullen spent 20 | :03:24. | :03:26. | |
years hiding out on Tenerife. The police say he was tracked down with | :03:27. | :03:30. | |
the help of information from the Diocese of Nottingham. Simon Hare | :03:31. | :03:39. | |
reports from the island. Holiday`makers and expats come here | :03:40. | :03:44. | |
to escape the richest winter. Father Cullen came here to escape British | :03:45. | :03:49. | |
justice, for more than two decades. In Las Christiaan lost stand these | :03:50. | :03:55. | |
apartments. It seems he spent most of those years living here in a | :03:56. | :03:59. | |
modest one`bedroom apartments. He ended up leaving over the death of | :04:00. | :04:04. | |
9000 euros for unpaid community fees. He had earned a living by | :04:05. | :04:11. | |
running errands for a local shop. He told some people he had been an | :04:12. | :04:16. | |
architect in Australia, but he had an altogether more truthful account | :04:17. | :04:22. | |
for a mild of the same fate. The parish priest said Father Cullen | :04:23. | :04:27. | |
used to visit his church regularly to pray, then, one day, came a | :04:28. | :04:32. | |
partial confession. Perhaps two years ago he said, I am a priest. I | :04:33. | :04:40. | |
was surprised because I had seen him before, just a normal person, for | :04:41. | :04:46. | |
many years and suddenly he was a priest. He appeared here and | :04:47. | :04:53. | |
suddenly disappeared. That is because last August he was arrested | :04:54. | :04:56. | |
while visiting Mass at this church in the neighbouring resorts of Playa | :04:57. | :05:02. | |
Taylor Americas. The priest in charge here had recognised him as a | :05:03. | :05:06. | |
wanted mild after an appeal for information that had originated from | :05:07. | :05:13. | |
the the church back in Britain. Before Mr Cullen was arrested and | :05:14. | :05:17. | |
charged in 1991 he was already known to be a regular visitor here to | :05:18. | :05:21. | |
Tenerife, which only raises the question, should he have been caught | :05:22. | :05:23. | |
much sooner? A heart surgeon who passed on a | :05:24. | :05:32. | |
deadly infection killing five patients wants to resume operations, | :05:33. | :05:35. | |
but without telling new patients about his past. John Lu works at | :05:36. | :05:38. | |
Nottingham City Hospital, but hasn't operated since 2009. He is seeking | :05:39. | :05:41. | |
damages from the NHS Trust, and is also claiming that telling patients | :05:42. | :05:44. | |
about his past would mislead them. The hearing at the High Court in | :05:45. | :05:54. | |
London could last two weeks. Our health correspondent Rob Sissons | :05:55. | :05:57. | |
was in court, and he explained the importance of the case. | :05:58. | :06:05. | |
This is a hugely significant case. At the centre, high much patient | :06:06. | :06:09. | |
should be told about the past? The legal team for John Lu say that it | :06:10. | :06:17. | |
is not right he should have to go through enhanced consent for | :06:18. | :06:21. | |
patients and say he poses no greater risk than any other surgeon. The | :06:22. | :06:25. | |
hospital trust says it has the bid the interests of nations first and | :06:26. | :06:29. | |
said they have a right to know what has happened so they can make up | :06:30. | :06:31. | |
their own mind. That's your news. So, it's goodbye | :06:32. | :06:34. | |
from me, but with your weather now, here's Kaye. | :06:35. | :06:41. | |
There is more sunshine to come over the next few days. There will be | :06:42. | :06:47. | |
some rain to come through tonight. The winds are picking up this | :06:48. | :06:51. | |
evening and the rain is not too far away. It will be pushing its way in | :06:52. | :06:55. | |
early in the morning, turning heavy at times. It moves through fairly | :06:56. | :07:00. | |
quickly, so by the end of the night we will be drying up once again. | :07:01. | :07:08. | |
Tomorrow morning, a little bit of cloud first thing but that will be | :07:09. | :07:12. | |
chopped up fairly quickly. It'll be a dry, bright morning with decent | :07:13. | :07:18. | |
bounds of sunshine. More cloud will push in from the west later on in | :07:19. | :07:22. | |
the day and is the chance of a couple of showers later on, but it | :07:23. | :07:27. | |
will be right. It will be mild, the pitches at 10 degrees. But the | :07:28. | :07:31. | |
outlook, more warm sunshine and weapons they handed | :07:32. | :07:33. | |
will be more rain overnight into Thursday. | :07:34. | :07:37. | |
Good evening. We have a spell of wet and windy weather working across the | :07:38. | :07:44. | |
British Isles. Today brought many of us some decent spells of sunshine | :07:45. | :07:49. | |
and it brought us some decent temperatures. In fact, our warmest | :07:50. | :07:54. | |
day of the year so far. At the moment, though, things have | :07:55. | :07:59. | |
changed. This is the gap in the satellite picture. Now, this curl of | :08:00. | :08:05. | |
cloud looks like a snail's shell, it is an area of low pressure that is | :08:06. | :08:09. | |
sweeping wind and rain across us. It's pushed into the west already | :08:10. | :08:13. | |
and is now making rapid progress eastwards, moving into eastern | :08:14. | :08:17. | |
England through the small hours Strong, gusty winds around the Irish | :08:18. | :08:23. | |
Sea coasts. The weather front will weaken as it gets into eastern | :08:24. | :08:28. | |
areas. Behind the weather front things are a good deal clearer and | :08:29. | :08:31. | |
that is the way we will start tomorrow. Our wet and windy weather, | :08:32. | :08:36. | |
the worst of it is out of the way as we look at Tuesday. There will be | :08:37. | :08:42. | |
some sunshine around, but there will be some hefty showers. First thing, | :08:43. | :08:44. |