1.   Congressional investigators later determined that Breault was a former Branch Davidian who had left the sect on bad terms.

2.   Now, Clark is a certified counselor for people determined to leave sects.

3.   He had formerly belonged to al-Sunna al-Mohammediyya, but had left this sect owing to religious differences, Gaafar said.

4.   Some members left the sect.

5.   He is also suspected of having sought to manufacture firearms and having drugged followers who wished to leave the sect, it said.

6.   Chantal Goupillot, who was one of those who died at the weekend in St. Casimir, Quebec, had said several months ago she had left the sect.

7.   Kotaro Ochida, who tried to leave the sect, was strangled to death with a rope.

8.   The group encouraged followers to leave the sect.