HE was wined and dined by unsuspecting locals who had no reason to believe the portly man dressed in a soutane was anything but a visiting priest. But people living in the rural town had no idea they were unwittingly entertaining one of Britain's most notorious sex offenders. John Cronin (36), a native of East Lothian in Scotland who has served prison sentences in both Ireland and the UK, masqueraded as a visiting priest for several days in Tuam, Co Galway. Ireland He was greeted with open arms by locals before he fled the area with a stolen cheque-book. Gardai in Tuam have confirmed that they are investigating the disappearance of the cheque-book from a house in Tuam. A number of shocked local people have now spoken out about how they were conned into entertaining the fake "priest", who has a violent sexual past. John Cronin is believed to have arrived in Tuam last month and passed himself off as a priest for a number of days around the town. But he disappeared when some people became suspicious of his credentials as a priest and contacted the Gardai when a cheque-book belonging to a guesthouse proprietor went missing. One man whom he joined for a sing-along in a Tuam pub said he became suspicious that the man dressed as a priest was a fake when he started telling blue jokes. "For every dirty joke that we would tell, this so-called priest would tell an even dirtier one and this made me suspicious that he was a fraud," he said. "He was a nasty person and he tried to fool us all by pretending he was a priest from Scotland. I'm shattered to think that I was so close to such bad company and it is hard to comprehend that this man who seemed so plausible could be so evil," said one Tuam businesswoman. He told people in Tuam his name was Fr Shane Cronin and that he was in charge of three parishes in Scotland. But, since he fled from Tuam, people have been informed that the "priest" they trusted and feted is a violent sex attacker who got a life sentence in 1992 in his native Scotland.
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