Radical priest to serial sex criminal

The Church of England leaders attracted hundreds of youths in their meetings in Sheffield in the 1980s and 1990s by the Church of England leaders.

But, during the seven -week test of his leader, Chris Brain, the gamblers heard how the explosion of the service exploded, the former priest used his power to separate the followers and sexually harass women in his congregation.

Now after a jury, he has been found guilty for 17 people, not the convicts of 15 and failed to reach the decision on five outstanding charges, the BBC investigated his rise and decline.

When Chris Brain first began to participate in services at St. Thomas Crook in Sheffield in the 1980s, he was seen as charismatic, attractive and emotional.

But he believed that the Church of England needed to move away from the “fancy golf club Christianity”, if he wanted to attract a younger generation – and he dreamed of combining modern music with the power of worship.

Reverend Robert Warren, who was the wicker of St. Thomas at the time, told the gamblers in the Inner London Crown Court that he gave the brain and his friends a chance to practice the idea in 1984, offering him a slot at 21:00 pm on Sunday night.

Brain – who was a member of a Christian rock band, called the present tens – live music and multimedia displayed in services, put on more events for a night club than a church.

Paul Haton, who at the time, was a 20-some microbiology student at the Sheffield Polytechnic, told the court that the services were “exciting” and “special” in their “enthusiasm” for young people.

He said, “You will reach there in about half at night. This place was black out, music was fantastic.”

Another former member called it more suddenly, since 1995 in the BBC documentary said: “We were sticking two fingers in the way of normal, middle class church behavior.”

Services, known as service, or NOS at nine o’clock, were a quick hit.

Mr. Warren told the court that in the next few years, the congregation reached around 400, and by the 1990s NOS had to go to a large site in the city ponds as people had signed up in their draw.

The court heard how on one occasion, Sheffield bishop confirmed 93 people in a service alone.

Shortly before her appointment as the archbishop of Cancerbury, George Kerry told Brain that he would like to see “Nine o’clock in every city and city in Britain” according to the 1995 documentary.

By 1991, the Suba of Sheffield had tracked the brain passage for the priest rapidly, allowing him to be held only two years instead of normal four.

Away from praise and bright lights, however, the members of the congregation described the brain as “manipulation and dictators”.

Some told the court that their vision for NOS went beyond self -services, including a “veating process” to join the congregation – and the new members were asked if they would make a “poverty”.

Sakshi Rachel Turning – One of the female brain was not accused of attacking – all NOS members donated 10% of their earnings to a central pot.

Meanwhile, the Bridget Evans – not one of the complainants – said that he had given NOS to about 40,000 pounds in his seven years as a member, and he remembers the brain was feeling pressure to donate.

Ms. Evans told the court that she had once handed over money from her father, who was for her brother’s wedding to South Africa, as the brain persuaded her to use money to not go for her and to buy a van for Nose.

Ms. Evans said, “The style of her leadership, in retrospect I would call it very manipulation. At that time, I would say, it was very dictatorial,” said Ms. Evans.

“We were all pulled into this belief [and] People had to accept this to follow the common vision. ,

During his test, the brain refused to financially exploit or control the members of his congregation.

He told the gamblers that he could sometimes be “overbering”, but claimed that it was just his “direct Yorkshire style”.

The court heard that NOS members were also discouraged by spending time outside their “discipleship group”, in which the court heard with friends or family.

Another witness, who was not a complainant in the case, told the court whether members socially associated with other people, the term “ranks up” will travel and they would be reprimanded by leaders “.

“You are then really a tough cold shoulder,” he said.

“You feel that if you do not fit in it, if you don’t go with it, you are not allowed to stay in this club, which is basically going to heaven. It is as simple as it is.”

Others described being “chris-napped”, when the brain would drive them around in his car, while they followed them, and then frequently expelled them for several weeks before coming into contact.

A victim described a terror attack behind the car as the brain shouted at him and told him that he was evil.

Another victim broke into tears because he explained to the court that the whole thing was “so misleading”.

“I always had a part of me [thinking]’Thank God that he has approached me … He is still happy with me, I am still acceptable.’ My self -esteem was completely based on how he responded to me. ,

Prosecutors said it was the support of the church that made the brain rapidly unacceptable and turned NOS into a “creed”.

However, the manipulation of the brain of his followers went beyond emotional misconduct.

The court heard that after the birth of his daughter, many young women were admitted to their home in Parkers Road for unpaid roles known as “homebase team” to allow the brain to focus on NOS.

The document of an 18-page was underlined that the jury was shown from those who were expected from those.

The mentioned duties had a raota for cooking and cleaning and with their dogs, driving as well as with the instructions that team members should be asked for “anything” brain.

One witness told the police that the members of the homebase team were treated “like slaves”, while the other said he was made to sleep on a thin, old rug in the dining room.

A member of the team, often tasked to walking the dog, told the court that she “knocks women through the window” from her way.

He told the court that he was often asked to “keep him on bed” late at night, and “never felt that I had an option not to say”.

The brain will then ask him to give a massage, including an opportunity, where he put his hand on his penis.

Brain did not deny that along with many women in the homebase team, other people were also massaged in their congregation.

The court was asked why he had a massage, Brain replied: “Why not?”

He said that some massage, to relieve “stress” in his body, could develop in “erotic touch”, which he said was between friends and “no big things”.

However, the victims of the brain stated that it was when most of the sexual abuse was part.

During the massage, he was found guilty, in which women were kissing, touching their breasts, and on an occasion, lay on a woman, while wearing clothes and “simulation of sex” with her.

A victim told the court that he felt “really shocked and nervous” after an attack, and that life later became “strange and difficult” for him.

“I spent my life constantly confusing,” he said.

The court heard that the homebase team was known by others in NOS as “Lycra Lovely” due to its clothes.

Ms. Evans said: “Chris used to say that it was designed to very important people, called ‘culture’ … It often included black lyging, tight-fitting top and that kind of thing.”

Meanwhile, NOS member Graham Moore told the court that initially, the homebase team looked like a suitable way to support the brain and his wife, but over time it became rapidly related and “something was right”.

He said that many women started looking thinner, wearing the same clothes and withdrawn from the contact of the rest of Nose.

One victim said, “What it looked like, which was a group of girls around this charismatic leader, and they put her on bed at night.”

The death of NOS was also faster than its rise for fame, when in the summer of 1995, the brain allegations of sexual abuse by the brain concluded their resignation and the collapse of the movement.

In the BBC documentary the same year, Brain admitted that “for a priest in a church setting, I would have to say that I was involved in unfair sexual conduct with many women”.

He told the gamblers in his trial that he had asked all those campaigns in the event of “overwhelmed trauma” during that entry.

It was not until 2019 that the South Yorkshire police opened an investigation, and it was only in 2024.

The brain was eventually convicted in 17 cases of indecent attack against nine victims.,

He was cleared by 15 more allegations of indecent attack and the gamblers were unable to reach the decision of one of the four equal counting and rape.

During his test, the brain denied all the offenses, claiming that any sexual contact was agreed.

But with the decision of the jury, his last sliced has fallen to control the life of their victims.