Sitting in the living room of their homes near Dublin, Sheila & Margaret Joyce revealed their Opus Dei nightmare… but there was one memory that stopped me in my tracks, writes JORDANA SEAL.
I spent five months investigating an ultra-conservative sect and posed as a university graduate at one of their centres in Hampstead. Several moments rang alarm bells.
Brought into mainstream media by the 2006 film The Da Vinci Code, the 'cult' has recently been at the centre of slavery, sexual misconduct and financial fraud allegations.
I'm not a horse girl. I've ran in the opposite direction on the rare occasion police ride them down Oxford Street, and the idea of leaving London for a countryside retreat is unimaginable.
When I was minding my own business at Barry's Bootcamp ahead of a class and a glam woman dressed in pastel lycra stood next to me ordering a protein shake, theft was the last thing on my mind.