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A bogus nun filmed participating in loyalist band parades has appeared in court demanding “£100m in damages” for being left lying in her own urine in a police cell.
Rachel Mulcahy, aka Anna Christian, claimed she was being represented in court by “the Holy Spirit” and said cops had left her with no access to hygiene products.
The 45-year-old is charged with two counts of obstructing traffic in a public place by lying on the road at Glengall Street and Chichester Street in Belfast on dates in February.
She is regularly pictured and filmed walking on the streets of the city while issuing loud proclamations in public places.
Mulcahy was also filmed taking part in a loyalist band parade while shouting obscenities about the Pope.
The case against her was mentioned at Laganside Magistrates Court last week, where she made a dramatic appearance in the public gallery.
Dressed head-to-toe in her phony religious garb, which includes a football-style name and number on the back reading ‘Christian, 7’, she denied being Rachel Mulcahy.
Instead, she told the court: “I am HH (Her Holiness) Reverend Anna Christian.”
When asked by District Judge Peter Magill if she was representing herself, she added: “No, the Holy Spirit is representing me, according to the holy Bible and the Gospel of St Luke, your worship.
“I want £100m compensation for being left in a cell covered in my own urine and blood.”
Ignoring her bizarre pleas, District Judge Magill adjourned the case until next month.
Mulcahy was previously banned from attending services at a Belfast monastery and was held in Hydebank Women’s Prison for a spell earlier this year.
She “resigned” from the Catholic Church after receiving the banning order, later reinventing herself as a religious campaigner named Anna Christian.
Prior to her arrest, Mulcahy was recorded standing at a roadside in east Belfast, singing religious songs and waving an Israeli flag.
She has thousands of followers on TikTok and Instagram and regularly posts videos of her stunts, which include blocking roads.
In May 2022, she was banned from entering Clonard Monastery in west Belfast for four years after disrupting services while pretending to be a nun.
The application by Father Peter Burns was granted by a judge because of Mulcahy’s “zeal and fervour” during her random appearance at services.
Afterwards, she told this newspaper she could not “have anything further to do with Roman Catholicism” following the ban.
She said: “I cannot support an organisation that lies and mistreats and abuses men, women and children who enter its doors.
“I cannot support an organisation that consistently defies God’s word in his holy scriptures, the Bible.
“I therefore resign completely and fully from Roman Catholicism, and now look to the Bible and Bible alone.”
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