 The 14 defendants are all members of a religious group that was based in the town of Toowoomba, which is about 125 kilometres west of Brisbane here in Queensland. A very small group, they called themselves the Saints, of a close-knit congregation based around the home of this group's leader, a man called Brendan Stevens. They had formed as a kind of a splinter group from another church a few years ago, but effectively it seems to be just two or three families who had kind of come together