Newport spiritualist said he was Jesus and made women strip - court hearsTuesday 19th June 2012
Chris Wood, Reporter
A SPIRITUALIST claimed to be Jesus Christ and “conned” grieving women into stripping and performing sex acts on themselves, a court heard.
Medium Karl Lang, 49, is alleged to have told two Newport women, both in their 20s, that by acting “more and more outrageously”, they could get in touch with dead relatives they were desperate to speak to.
Prosecutor Matthew Roberts told Newport Crown Court Lang “totally brainwashed’ the vulnerable women and also encouraged them to send him naked photos of themselves by saying this would enhance their psychic powers.
Lang, of Winchester Close, Newport, denies 12 counts of causing women to engage in sexual activity without consent, which are alleged to have occurred between November 2005 and September 2009 and involve two women.
Mr Roberts described Lang as a “charming, charismatic spiritualist” who was able to dominate his alleged victims.
He said the defendant devised a “spirit scale” with training exercises which involved women taking their clothes off to enhance their psychic powers.
Mr Roberts said: “He told them they had to be naked as the spirits are also naked and being more and more outrageous in their behaviour would please the spirits and progress them on the spirit scale.”
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