Source: The Telegraph

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2005/06/19/nexor19.xml

On June 19, 2005 The Telegraph reported, "The nondescript red-brick block in north London barely warrants a second glance, but inside one of the flats is concealed a bizarre world barely comprehensible to most people.

This is the home of Malcolm Poussaint, a self-styled 'voodoo priest' who performs harrowing exorcism rituals on children as young as six whom their parents believe are possessed by demons. Malcolm Poussaint at his home in Harlesden. He says there is considerable demand for his services

Mr Poussaint sees nothing wrong with what he does. It is, he insists, work that has to be carried out.

'If the child is not exorcised then it will grow up to be horrible. I get results,' said the 75-year-old, who is originally from Benin in West Africa.

He is one of scores of exorcists, mystics and psychics offering their services to London's large African community.

The world they inhabit has been thrown open by the recent conviction of Sita Kisanga and her brother, Sebastian Pinto, immigrants from Angola, for the horrific abuse of an eight-year-old orphaned girl they believed to be a witch. The girl's aunt was also convicted for her role in the abuse."