A spiritual medium accused of indecently assaulting a 17-year-old during a ritual cleansing was trying to remove "an attachment" from the male, a court has heard.
Hastings man Craig Wright, 35, is standing trial in the Napier District Court this week after pleading not guilty to two charges of indecent assault.
He is alleged to have touched the complainant's penis, and then made the teenager touch Wright's penis, during a spiritual cleansing at a Napier address on May 6 last year.
Wright was at the address with associates from a paranormal group after residents in the house contacted them about spiritual activity at the property.
In a DVD interview played to the jury this morning Wright said he performed a cleansing for around an hour and a half on a male at the address after realising he had "an attachment".