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Derby pervert priest scandal: 'Tenerife is a place you can remain anonymous'
By Martin Naylor
Derby Telegraph
February 25, 2014
http://www.derbytelegraph.co.uk/Derby-pervert-priest-scandal-Tenerife-place/story-20693013-detail/story.html
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| The Los Alisios complex, in Los Cristianos, Tenerife, where Cullen, using the alias Raul Martin, lived until 2007. |
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| The resort of Los Cristianos. |
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| The church of Nuestra Senora del Carmen, which Cullen is believed to have visited occasionally. |
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| The disgraved former Derby Derby priest, Francis Paul Cullen. |
IT would have been easy for disgraced priest Father Francis Paul Cullen to remain anonymous in Tenerife, according to a leading journalist on the island.
Cullen lived in Tenerife under an assumed name, it was revealed yesterday.
Ross Browning is the editor of Canarian Weekly, an English-language newspaper in Tenerife, where Cullen lived until his extradition last year.
Mr Browning said that he looked into Cullen's life following his arrest last year.
He said: "Tenerife, especially when this man came to live here 20 years ago, is the sort of place that you 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 that he discovered that Cullen used an alias – Raul Martin – and lived, until 2007, in an apartment in the Los Alisios complex in Los Cristianos.
He said: "One local told me that he would see this man occasionally at the Nuestra Senora del Carmen Catholic Church in Los Cristianos.
"Los Cristianos is an old fishing village that has become popular with tourists and is centred around an old square where the church is.
"We know that Cullen was not working and we believe he was living off his pension.
"I cannot find anyone who knew very much about his life in Tenerife."
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