Prison term for sex cult 'master'

A self-styled sex cult master has been jailed for three years for forcing a lover to sleep with other men.

Teesside Crown Court heard that Lee Thompson convinced the woman that it was part of his pagan religion.

The 34-year-old, now of Bearwood Road, Smethwick, in the West Midlands, and his cult were exposed in 2006 in Darlington, County Durham.

He admitted two counts of procuring a woman to have sexual intercourse. Three counts of rape were left on file.

'Extraordinary ability'

The court was told that Thompson, charged under the alias Harrington, enslaved his ex-lover, and then made her have sex with a number of men against her will.

Although she did not see any money changing hands, she believed he was charging men.

The victim reported the offences after reading about his cult in Forster Street, Darlington, some time after their relationship ended.

He had by then taken up the Kaotian way of life, based on 1960s sci-fi novels, in which men dominate women and treat them as slaves.

Judge Tony Briggs said: "What rather shouts out from the papers is you have an extraordinary ability and appetite for dominating and manipulating others."