Paranormal-obsessed brothers, 31 and 20, who terrorised children in warped ‘exorcism’ ritual while high on cocaine after claiming they were ‘possessed’ by evil spirts avoid jail

• Reece and Jamie Brosnan were high on cocaine when they carried out ‘exorcism’
• Reece, 31, and Jamie, 20, barricaded the two children in a room for three hours
• When police arrived they found Reece pinning one young victim down by his leg
• Both admitted to two counts of child cruelty and handed suspended sentences 

Two brothers who terrorised children in a warped ‘exorcism’ ritual in order to ‘free them from a demon’ have avoided jail.

Paranormal obsessed Reece Brosnan, 31, and his brother Jamie, 20, were high on cocaine when they barricaded a door and held two children in a three-hour ordeal.

The pair, from Kent, believed the youngsters were possessed by ‘the Devil or some kind of demon’, a court heard.

One victim was discovered pinned to a bed, so terrified she was drenched in sweat and her hair was matted when police swooped on the scene.

Reece told officers he was trying to protect the children by fending off evil spirits, a claim echoed by Jamie, who added the children were ‘possessed’.

At Maidstone Crown Court, the Brosnan brothers pleaded guilty to two counts of child cruelty earlier this year. 

The pair were both handed suspended prison sentences.  

Paranormal obsessed Reece (pictured left), 31, and Jamie Brosnan (pictured right), 20, were high on cocaine when they barricaded a door and held two children in a three-hour ordeal. The pair, from Kent, believed the youngsters were possessed by ‘the Devil or some kind of demon’.

Former prison officer Reece described how objects were flying off the walls and plates were being smashed during the bizarre ceremony at a house in Chatham, Kent, in September 2018.

When Premier Inn worker Jamie dialled 999 he told a call operator the children ‘kept switching bodies’, while the call handler could hear screaming in the background.

Police were also called after passers-by heard wailing, in what sounded like ‘some sort of exorcism’.

Officers rushed to the scene to find Reece pinning down one victim with his leg, while the door had been barricaded shut.

Following their arrest the pair admitted to police they had taken cocaine. 

A judge labelled their actions ‘entrenched wrong-headed beliefs in the paranormal’, after hearing the men became convinced evil spirits were trying to overcome their victims.

Nathalie Carter, prosecuting, told the court: ‘Both Brosnans believed some sort of paranormal was happening and the children were under the hold of the Devil or some kind of demon.

At Maidstone Crown Court (pictured), the Brosnan brothers pleaded guilty to two counts of child cruelty earlier this year. The pair were both handed suspended prison sentences

‘They were acting in a bizarre manner because of their beliefs. This happened over a period of time – several hours.

‘Texts from Reece showed him talking of things flying off walls, plates being smashed.’

Jamie, of Strood, Kent, was handed 12 months’ in jail, suspended for 18 months.

Reece, of Twydall near Gillingham, Kent, was given an 18-month prison term, also suspended for the same period of time.

The court heard one victim still suffers night terrors following the ordeal.

Recorder David Jeremy QC told the brothers as he sentenced them: ‘Your victims were quite simply absolutely terrorised.

‘Because of the entrenched matter of your views there is nothing the probation service can do in the way of rehabilitation.’

Steven Mould, representing the defendants, argued the incident was a one off and the brothers, of previous good character, had ‘washed their hands completely of cocaine’.

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