Children forced to say father was leader of satanic cult

The father of two young children tortured into claiming he was the leader of a satanic cult has said he still gets death threats despite a judge dismissing the allegations as “baseless”.

Mrs Justice Pauffley said at a public hearing in London last month that the children, aged eight and nine, had suffered “incalculable” harm after their mother and her partner forced them to “provide concocted accounts of horrific events”.

Their father, speaking to the BBC, said his children’s minds had been “mixed up, messed up” by the traumatic events.