The court has previously heard that some of Mr Brain’s alleged victims told police they felt they had been “brainwashed” and “groomed” by him.<\/p>\n
Mr Simkin asked the defendant if he made members “obey” or if he turned them into “robots” for his “sexual desires”, Mr Brain denied this.<\/p>\n
Asked if members could work, the defendant said: “Yes of course. Some of them had normal jobs.”<\/p>\n
Questioned about his leadership style, he said: “I think most of the time I worked on consensus, at the time that’s what I thought was most considerate, making sure you take everybody with you.”<\/p>\n
Mr Brain also denied having an extravagant lifestyle wearing clothes that “everybody else wore” and said he was “not money-orientated”.<\/p>\n
Mr Simkin asked the defendant if he “fleeced” others to pay for his lifestyle, and the defendant replied: “No.”<\/p>\n
NOS was initially celebrated by Church of England leaders for its nightclub-style services which incorporated live music and multimedia and attracted hundreds of young people to its congregation.<\/p>\n
The trial continues.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The court has previously heard that some of Mr Brain’s alleged victims told police they felt they had…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":317431,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8817],"tags":[748,393,4884,1620,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-317430","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-sheffield","8":"tag-britain","9":"tag-england","10":"tag-great-britain","11":"tag-sheffield","12":"tag-uk","13":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114971156404753027","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/317430","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=317430"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/317430\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/317431"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=317430"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=317430"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=317430"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}