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Spritualist guru raped vulnerable women lured to his cult, court hears
More articles on this topic: Michael Lyons / Mohan SinghSpritualist guru raped vulnerable women lured to his cult, court hears
A bogus guru raped and sexually assaulted attractive women lured to his cult in a ten-year spree, a court heard.
Michael Lyons, 51, styled himself as spiritualist Mohan Singh and victims were convinced he was linked to the Dalai Lama, it is alleged.
But in fact he is a ’sexual predator’ who raped and assaulted new or potentially new followers that he found attractive, a jury was told.
Prosecutor Philip Katz QC said: “We say the defendant, calling himself Mohan Singh, is a sexual predator masquerading as a Guru and healer.
“We say he has been systematically raping and sexually assaulting those new recruits into his group who he found attractive.”
Lyons is said to have attacked seven women from 1998 to 2008.
Wood Green Crown Court heard the victims would be brought to him after female devotees had praised him as being ‘enlightened’.
He would then criticise them and ask about whether they were sexually abused in the past, it was said. He would also convince them that he could help them, the court heard.
Bearded Lyons, who wore a purple robe in court, left one victim feeling drained and unable to move after performing a ‘violent’ neck twist on her and giving her acupuncture, the jury was told.
The court heard how Lyons was surrounded by a large group of young women who would follow his commands.
One victim, an American, said he raped her in July 1998, during a trip to London.
[....]Another alleged rape victim wept as she told the jury how she had been attacked at Lyons’ flat in north London in June 2002.
[...]She told the court Lyons had criticised her for being Buddhist before emerging with a burning frying pan that smelt of herbs and wafted it around her mumbling incoherent words.
[...]Lyons, of Belsize Park, north London, denies five counts of rape and three counts of assault.
[...]
How I was raped by the bogus guru of suburbia, by dancer
Michael Lyons, 51, who went under the name of Mohan Singh, masqueraded as a healer and convinced his victims he was a friend of the Dalai Lama, it was alleged.
[...]Mohan went round ‘giving back rubs’ to the women as they sat in a circle, the court heard. He then told all the girls to get up and dance to music by Michael Jackson. After an hour or two, Mohan took one of his female disciples downstairs, it was alleged.
The witness said: ‘When they both came back, I remember everyone commenting on the woman, saying how much energy she gained from being downstairs and getting some sort of treatment.
‘I didn’t think so. I thought she looked quite flushed.’
When the witness said she wanted a shower, Mohan suggested she could do it at his house in Belsize Park, North London. She told the court that Mohan ran the shower and promised to bring her some special soap.
[...]‘The next thing I can remember he jumped in the shower as well, to use the soap on me, to give me a back rub. He was touching me. At first it didn’t feel sexual, he rubbed my arms, and my back, then my shoulders.
‘He said there was something wrong with my kidneys, and I could fix this sort of thing with his treatment. He was turning me around at certain points. I remember thinking it was quite strange.’
The woman said she had to get out of the shower as she was tired. But as there were no couches in his house, Mohan told her she would have to lie on his bed, the court heard.
On the bed, she said: ‘He was rubbing me and rubbing my breasts. He said he could make my breasts better with the right sort of treatment and massage. He said he could heal my body inside and out.’
Mohan then climbed on top of her and had sex with her, the court heard.
‘He was still talking about fixing my body and enlightening me, helping me with positive energy,’ she said.
‘I remember him saying things like, he was enlightening me, and I’d never had an organic p***s and he was giving me his organic p***s.’
[...]The court has heard from two earlier alleged victims. An American woman said Lyons raped her in July 1998 after showing her a religious film. Another alleged rape victim wept as she told the jury how she had been attacked at Lyons’s flat in June 2002 after he burned herbs under her nose.
Surrounded by female followers, he performed acupuncture on her, then raped her in his bedroom.
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