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Sex attacker John Cronin terrified churchgoers when he arrived for mass dressed as a priest. Cronin - who once posed as a priest before trying to strangle a woman - was spotted three times outside St John The Baptist Church in Fauldhouse, West Lothian.

The fiend [sic], whose movements are being tracked by every police force in the UK, was recognised by a parishioner as she arrived for the Saturday morning service.

She told parish priest Canon John Agnew and her story was backed up by two male worshippers. But Cronin had vanished when they went to investigate. They then called the police.

Canon Agnew said: "We went outside to see if we could follow him but he'd disappeared."

"I don't think he'd been here too long. This is a small place and everyone knows everyone else. Someone would have noticed him.

"He is a danger to women. I hope he was only passing through. The railway station is at the end of this street."

Cronin has been named as Scotland's most serious sex attacker and psychiatrists branded him "incurable". In the past three months he has been spotted in his priest's uniform attempting to con people in Sligo, Galway and Donegal.

Full story at the Sunday Mail.