Psychic, 49, 'brainwashed two women into stripping and carrying out sexual acts at seances to help contact their dead relatives'

Karl Lang 'played out imaginary sexual fantasies' with victims

He convinced two women to strip naked as it would 'increase their powers'

He told women to strip naked as 'the spirits are also naked'

Facing jail: Karl Lang, pictured, has been warned he could be sent to prison for the crimes against vulnerable young women

A fraud psychic brainwashed women into stripping naked and performing sex acts by claiming it would improve their chances of contacting dead relatives, a court heard.



Karl Lang is said to have persuaded his victims that nudity would 'enhance their psychic powers' at his seances because 'the spirits are also naked'.



The 49-year-old also told two female clients that 'being more outrageous would please the spirits', the court heard, and that sending naked photos of themselves to him would increase their psychic abilities.



The two women, both in their twenties, were tricked after asking Lang, who claimed to be the reincarnation of Jesus, to help contact their dead relatives, a jury heard.

One of them had hoped to communicate with her father, the other wanted to contact her grandfather.



Police were finally called after Lang told one of the women that for further progress to be made, she should allow him to touch her, it is alleged.



Prosecutor Matthew Roberts said: 'It was a cruel trick. He was a sexual fraudster and he conned them.



'He told them that by acting more and more outrageously they could get in touch with dead relatives they were desperate to speak to.



'He encouraged them to send him naked photographs of themselves saying it would increase their psychic powers. He told them they had to be naked as the spirits are also naked.'



Mr Roberts added: 'He totally brainwashed them. He was a charming, charismatic spiritualist who was able to dominate his victims.'



The first alleged victim lost her father ten years ago. Mr Roberts continued: 'She wanted to be trained as a medium to reach her dad and help other grieving people. But the training became more explicit and intense.

It involved her touching herself in front of Lang and sending Lang naked photographs of herself. Alarm bells started ringing when Lang told her that to progress to the next level he must touch her.'



The woman said: 'He was an abuser taking advantage of the fact that my dad died when I was young and I never had the chance to say goodbye.'



The jury was told on Tuesday that the pair met weekly over a two-year period and the woman described her training as becoming more and more explicit as Lang told her to be 'outrageous to please the spirits'.



Guilty: Lang, of Newport, South Wales, was found guilty at Newport Crown Court, pictured, of 12 charges causing women to engage in sexual activity without consent during séance sessions

She claims he told her some girls sent him explicit text messages, photos and videos of themselves to improve their medium skills, and though she said this made her 'feel sick' she sent him eight naked photos of herself.



'He totally brainwashed them. He was a charming, charismatic spiritualist who was able to dominate his victims.'

MR MATTHEW ROBERTS, PROSECUTING

At every meeting the woman would be naked with her eyes closed, meditating for 30 minutes, with Lang telling her to imagine scenarios – such as having sex with five men on a desert island.



Lang is later said to have told her that her father had contacted him to say her psychic skills had improved after she performed a sexual act while sitting naked.



The 27-year-old brunette, who has been prescribed anti-depressants for anxiety, yesterday spoke via a video link to the court, saying: 'Karl blackmailed me.

He said if I ever told on him or stopped training, I would never be able to speak to my father. I was vulnerable, manipulated and brainwashed – and he knew it.



'Karl said I needed to be spiritually cleaned to get to the next level of my training - and to do this I had to strip naked,' A 27-YEAR-OLD VICTIM TOLD THE COURT





'He reassured us by saying what we were doing was completely normal, that this was how you trained to become a medium. But I felt pressurised and uncomfortable.'



She said that one day he told her he had performed a sex act on a girl he was training.



'He said the spirit world was instructing him to do it with me,' she said. 'That creeped me out. I knew it had to stop.'



She added: 'Karl said nothing would ever happen to him. He was Jesus Christ, he was invincible. We were groomed and whatever Karl said went as gospel. Now every time I think of my father, I am haunted by Karl.'

The jury at Newport Crown Court in South Wales heard that the other woman stopped visiting Lang when he said he would have to touch her with his mouth if she wanted to 'progress up the psychic scale'.

