AMANDA PLATELL: Listening to Russell Brand's victims in court was distressing enough. But there's something else about the behaviour of him and his wife that has sickened me to my soul...

As a lifelong, practising Christian, I found it utterly repugnant to watch the self-styled Messiah use God as his defence, parading his supposed new faith as if proof of his goodness and innocence.

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