‘Cult vicar did not make ‘victims’ dress in Lycra – all young women wore in the 1990s’

A group of worshippers allegedly assaulted by a cult vicar wore lycra because ‘all young women did in the 1990s,’ a court heard. Chris Brain, 68, denies 37 offences against 13 women who were involved in his Sheffield based evangelical movement called Nine O’Clock Service. He led NOS from 1986 to 1995 before it collapsed due to allegations of widespread sexual and psychological abuse. Brain employed a team of ‘home-based’ young women wearing tight-fitting clothes to help him get to…