Bunbury masseur Anthony Brain guilty of sexually assaulting clients
Anthony Brain was on trial for multiple sex charges. (ABC News: David Weber)
In short:
Bunbury masseur Anthony Brain has been found guilty of sexually assaulting multiple clients at his clinic.
He went on trial in the WA District Court in October and was found guilty on Friday.
What's next?
Brain has been remanded in custody ahead of a sentencing hearing next year.
A self-described nudist masseur from Bunbury who provided "internal" massages has been found guilty of multiple sex offences.
WARNING: This story contains details of sexual assault that readers may find distressing.
Anthony Brain, 39, sexually assaulted 13 women who went to his business, The Nomadic Masseur, in the coastal city.
The court heard he digitally penetrated victims, put his hands on groins, massaged breasts and touched nipples without consent.
Brain told his clients they could get naked and that he would too because he had no problem with nudity, the District Court heard.
The prosecutor said Brain "had sex on his brain" and went further than his clients expected or wanted.
Anthony Brain's business slogan was "Live with your body not against it". (Supplied: worldchampionship-massage.com)
Brain went on trial in October accused of offending against 18 women, mostly clients, between 2020 and 2023.
He has been found guilty of 25 charges relating to 13 victims, who gave evidence via video link.
Some broke down as they described how he assaulted them while talking about his sexual preferences.
Anthony Brain was accused of sexually assaulting 18 women. (Supplied: thenomadicmasseur.com)
Victims said they thought he was doing his job and that it was only afterwards that they considered he may have done something wrong.
One woman went to see him for a glute massage, but he was soon telling her he had lived in a nudist colony in Europe and was hoping to bring people from there to Bunbury to "normalise it" so that the city could have something similar.
Brain told another woman that he wanted to open a brothel in Bunbury, the court heard.
Victims described how they went to see him, wanting painful areas to be worked on, but Brain focused on more private parts of the body.
Anthony Brain travelled the world as part of his massage business. (Facebook)
The defence had asserted that Brain's massage techniques made women to believe they were being assaulted when they actually were not, but prosecutor Alan Dungey said that was "absurd".
However, the court was told of women who went to see Brain and willingly consented to "internal" therapy.
Prosecutor Alan Dungey described Brain's defence as "absurd". (ABC News: Kenith Png)
'Australia wasn't quite ready'
Giving evidence, Brain said he was in the Australian Army and then lived in Europe.
He said his methods were acceptable in Europe and denied he did anything internal or sexual without consent.
Brain told the court he was only trying to offer his clients freedom from pain and a better quality of life, but admitted that not everybody was as "open minded" as he was.
"Australia wasn't quite ready for what I can do," he said.
Brain has been remanded in custody for a sentencing hearing on February 6.
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