'Lots of tears' at chapel services, says Westminster chaplain

Fr Pat Browne says MPs and peers were 'very shaken' following the attack on Wednesday

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The Catholic chaplain to Parliament said people were weeping at prayer services the day after the Westminster terror attack.

The priest, Fr Pat Browne, said he arrived at Parliament about two minutes after Wednesday's attack and was sent home by police.

He returned yesterday for three prayer services for those killed and injured when an assailant mowed down people on Westminster Bridge, crashed, and killed a police officer near Parliament before being killed.

Fr Browne conducted the services in Parliament's Chapel of St Mary's Undercroft with the Reverend Rose Hudson-Wilkin, the Speaker's chaplain and an Anglican.

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