In January 1990, at Winchester Crown Court, Zoltan Edes, of Andover, Hampshire, admitted indecent assault and having unlawful sexual intercourse with a girl over a period of five years from when she was 11. Her father admitted aiding and abetting indecent assault. Edes, whose religion was a mixture of fantasy, prayers and Bible readings, convinced both father and daughter that he could fight evil with his powers. The ‘rituals’ concerned the father’s conversion of a bedroom into ‘the Purple Room’ where Edes had sex with the daughter and performed what he called rituals which included making her lie across him so their bodies made the shape of the cross. The girl was later quoted as saying: ‘Because it was all normal crosses and readings from the Bible, I thought nothing could be wrong. We were not worshipping the devil or sacrificing chickens.’