'IT IS THE HEIGHT OF NAIVETY'
Manchester Evening News|July 14, 2023
CHURCH BOSSES HAVE ‘CONVERSATIONS’ WITH PRIEST AFTER BLESSING ON BIKE AT FUNERAL THAT WAS FOLLOWED BY DISORDER
NEAL KEELING
'IT IS THE HEIGHT OF NAIVETY'

RIDING pillion on a motorbike driven by a masked youth a priest follows a funeral cortege from a cemetery.

Video footage captured Father Frankie Mulgrew, son of comedian Jimmy Cricket, shaking holy water from an aspergillum, as the machine follows a line of cars.

The clip was filmed at St Mary's cemetery in Wardley, on Tuesday at the funeral of Saul Cookson, from Salford.

He died, aged 15, after his e-bike was in collision with an ambulance on Langworthy Road on June 8. He was being followed by police before the crash.

Father Mulgrew had earlier conducted the funeral service at St James and All Souls RC Church, Salford Precinct, Pendleton.

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