A self-styled healer dubbed 'The Guru of Suburbia' - accused of raping and molesting female followers - is the victim of a wide-ranging conspiracy one of his devotees told a jury.
Michael Lyons - aka Mohan Singh - 52, of Brondesbury Park, Kilburn, North-West London denies five counts of rape, two of sexual assault by touching and one by penetration on seven women between 1998 and 2008.
Graduate Sophie Reddyhoff, 28, who accuses her estranged family and the police of a plot to destroy Mohan denied she was a cult disciple who lured a victim into the defendant’s clutches.
“Noone was raped, noone was molested. People have come to court and lied about that,” the music and theatre promoter told Wood Green Crown Court.
She had travelled in a Bentley from Holmes Place health club High Street, Kensington, with her Sheffield lecturer landlady and the defendant to a party at a basement flat in Finchley Road, where Mohan allegedly penetrated the woman’s vagina with his fingers.
“She would have said: ‘Someone’s put their fingers up my fanny.’
“I would never invite anyone to be raped or molested. It’s an outrageous allegation,” blonde Miss Reddyhoff told the court.
“There was nothing in her behaviour to suggest that something untoward had happened and she stayed for another hour. I think it is outrageous someone can come along and turn the situation.
“In fact she thanked me for such a lovely evening. She said she had a great time.”
Reddyhoff abandoned PhD studied after a “life-changing” six months in India, where she met Mohan who introduced her to an alternative lifestyle to her cocaine, ecstasy, cannabis and alcohol existence.
“He’s an absolute expert in health, nutrition and the body and people will refer to him as ‘Dr’, but he doesn’t call himself a doctor.”
Reddyhoff’s parents bought a three-bedroom Sheffield house for her and her student brother, but she moved in with the divorced lecturer in her forties for more space.
“She was blaming men a lot for the mishaps in her life,” added Reddyhoff, who claimed her landlady enjoyed nights out in revealing clothes and had: “A lot of one night stands.”
The landlady was introduced to Mohan at the health club and received some treatment to her back and was only in a private room at the three-bedroom flat for “five to seven minutes” with the defendant, said Reddyhoff.
“I know she lied because I was there when she met Mohan. Mohan hasn’t raped anyone, it’s all lies.
“Women can be very manipulative. I think it’s disgusting.
“Thousands of people would stand up and say how much he has helped their health and well being. I have never seen him be remotely sexual in his approach to people.
“It has taken six years to come up with six rubbish stories.
“There is a campaign, like my parents to bring down Mohan, to try and destroy him.”
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