A priest who is accused of running a ‘cult’ of the church of England has admitted that he received massages of women covered by lingerie in his congregation, a court heard.
Christopher Brain, now 68, is accused of one citizen of rape and 36 counts of indecent attack between 1981 and 1995 against 13 women. He denies all charges against him.
The jury was told how the evangelical priest surrounded himself with women in lingerie, known as the Lycra nunns, who was expected to ” bring him to bed ‘.
Brain led the Nine O’Clock Service (NOS), in Sheffield in the 1980s and 1990s, aimed at 18 to 30-year-olds and formed by Rave Culture. He wore the same cassock worn by actor Robert de Niro in the film ‘The Mission’ during the ceremony.
Public Prosecutors say that NOS has become a cult where brains abused its position to sexually attack a ‘stunning number of’ female followers, to exert control of their lives and banish them from friends and family.
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Inner London Crown Court heard earlier that a ‘homebase team’ was founded to ‘take care of’ brains – referred to as ‘The Lycra Lovelies’ or ‘The Lycra Nuns’ – with witnesses who reported that the suspect was surrounded by attractive women in lingerie at his house.
Brain told jury members on Monday that this was ‘completely untrue’.
He said that members were “conscious” and that they wore clothing that reflected the time period.
The suspect denied the prescription of what they wore.
Public Prosecutor Tim Clark KC previously gave an overview of the alleged violations and passed on accounts of complainants who submitted various claims-including those brains that provided them, would touch during massages and a film scene again pronounced with rape or sexual abuse about clothing.
Lawyer of the defense Iain Simkin KC asked on Monday ‘, which the hell owned him to have massages of women.
The suspect replied: ‘I just did that. Why not?’
(Credits: Elizabeth Cook/PA wire)
Brain said jury members that some massages, intended to be ‘tensions’ on his body, evolve into ‘sensual touch’, of which he said it was between friends and ‘not Big Deal’.
He denied touching someone’s breasts during massages while he was part of NOS in Sheffield, but admitted that he did this after his involvement.
Brain said this was consensual and not forced.
Simkin asked Brain if he would keep touching someone sexually if they felt uncomfortable and the suspect said he wouldn’t do that.
The lawyer then asked what he would have done if someone had communicated his discomfort.
Brain said that he would stop ‘immediately’, adding that this would not exceed ‘boundaries’.
The suspect was asked if people were ‘impressed’ in his presence, and he replied that he was being recognized.
Simkin asked, “Did you feel that people were desperate in your company?”
Brain replied: “Some people were desperate to be in my company.”
The suspect added that he got a bit of a compliment that had been a musician.
Brain said he acknowledged that people wanted to be close to him.
Simkin asked Brain if he exploited this, to which the suspect said, “Absolutely not.”
The court heard earlier that large sums of money were spent on finding the robes carried by Robert de Niro in the film The Mission for Brain to Don to his Ordination.
Simkin asked: “Did you worn that because you are an Egomaniac who wanted to show power and control over members of the church?”
Brain replied: “No.”
The suspect had previously told jury members that he had a leading role in a group in Sheffield from the early 1980s, who would later solve in the NRS.
The suspect gave evidence in a navy right case and said that the earlier group was compared to a ‘Kibbutz’ with 12 members who would concentrate on helping the poor and disadvantaged.
Simkin asked Brain or tried to indoctrinate those in the group.
Brain replied, “No, of course not.”
The suspect also denied trying to force others.
Mr. Simkin asked: “Did you try to start a cult?”
Brain said he didn’t do that, and added that the people involved were ‘completely anti-cult’.
The NOS started in 1986 and the suspect said it had a ‘team structure’, but that he led the municipality.
He told about leading the design of worship, choosing the music, songs and lighting.
Brain said that he was ‘rarely’ at the front of worship and, instead, played a ‘producer’ role.
He said to jury members, “Yes, I was a leader, but there were other leaders too.”
Mr. Simkin asked Brain if he was a ‘controlling maniac’ who ran a cult for his own purposes.
The suspect said that he was not and added that members “were completely against a charismatic guy who led the front of their service.”
Mr. Simkin asked the suspect if he ‘obey’ or whether he turned them into ‘robots’ for his ‘sexual desires’, which he denied.
Asked if members could work, the suspect said: ‘Yes of course. Some of them had normal jobs. ‘
Simkin asked Brain for his leadership style, on which the suspect said: “I think I usually worked on consensus, at that moment that was what I found most attentive, making sure you took everyone.”
But he admitted that he was ‘Yorkshire and Hetero’ and ‘directly according to today’s standards’.
Brain said that his role was ‘completely consuming’ and ‘creative intensive’.
Mr. Simkin also asked the brain if he dressed people in public, humiliated them or wanted to check what the suspect denied.
The process continues.
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