Cult vicar will be retried

A vicar who abused members of his Church of England cult is facing a retrial. Chris Brain, 68, was head of the Sheffield based evangelical movement the Nine O’Clock Service set up in 1986 to run ‘nightclub-style’ church services. The organisation collapsed in 1995 due to allegations of widespread sexual and psychological abuse. Brain employed a team of ‘home-based’ women wearing tight-fitting clothes known as the ‘Lyrca Lovelies’ or ‘Lycra Nuns’ to ‘help him get to sleep’ and perform sexual…