By Chris Baynes
The jury heard some young women who joined the movement were recruited to a team which looked after Mr Brain, his wife and their daughter in their Sheffield home, where the defendant was “surrounded by attractive women” wearing lingerie or other revealing clothing.
One woman who joined the team – referred to as “the Lycra lovelies” or “the Lycra nuns” – told a police interview she was warned she would be excluded if she disobeyed Mr Brain.
Mr Brain would also “suddenly appear” beside female members as they walked in the street and ask them to get into his car, the jury heard.
Mr Clark said: “Those who did not keep the defendant happy would find themselves estranged from the group – this was incredibly disconcerting to young impressionable women who had become emotionally dependent on NOS and, as a result, highly vulnerable.”
The prosecutor said “any capacity to consent” to sexual acts with Mr Brain was “removed by the domineering nature of the defendant, by his control over their entire lives and by their absolute terror of being ostracised”.
The alleged offences are said to have taken place between 1981 and 1995.
The trial, which is expected to last six to eight weeks, continues.