The middle-class cult that tried to derail the justice system
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Nestled in a leafy, quiet street lies an imposing double-fronted Victorian house that seems an unlikely nexus for a resolutely middle-class cult convinced the “country is going to be taken over by Nazis”.
But this is the London home of self-styled “chief judge” Mark Christopher, who this week was jailed for seven years after storming a coroner’s court to kidnap a senior coroner for “interfering with the dead”.
Christopher, 59, alongside former police officer Shiza Harper, her husband Sean Harper, and Matthew Martin, marched into Essex coroner’s court in Chelmsford, in April 2023, threatening to mete out “corporal punishment”.
Their target was senior coroner Lincoln Brookes, and when they realised he was not present, they then threatened coroner Michelle Brown, before the police were alerted.
The incident and fast unfolding investigation initially sparked additional concerns among senior police officers, because of the pending Coronation of King Charles III.
Martin, 47, from Plaistow, east London, was arrested at the scene, but Christopher, along with Shiza Harper, 45, and Sean Harper, 38, both from South Benfleet, Essex, were later arrested in Southend.
All four, who were sentenced at Chelmsford Crown Court on Monday, were part of a bizarre “anti-establishment cult” that claimed “non-existent powers” to usurp the legal system, said Mr Justice Goss.
The judge said that Christopher, a convicted fraudster, was “intelligent, persuasive, manipulative and dishonest” and “preyed on the vulnerabilities of others”.
Christopher is believed to have gained hundreds of followers across the world since he created his “Federal Postal Court” or “Court of the People”, which, he admits, is modelled on American cult leader David Wynn Miller. As well as claiming that he had died during surgery before a miraculous recovery, Miller developed “Quantum Grammar”, a legal language that he said was the only true legal language.
Content retrieved from: https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2024/10/29/the-middle-class-cult-that-tried-to-derail-the-justice/.
