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lived there rent-free in exchange for some housekeeping chores and sex with Spahn.
    Kasabian was instantly welcomed into this group that called itself the Family. At its centre was Charles Manson, a small, dark-haired, bearded man with piercing eyes and a charismatic personality. Thirty-four-year-old Manson had been a career criminal, spending less than half his life outside approved school and prison. In 1967 he had been released from a ten-year prison stretch for transporting an underage woman over a state border for immoral purposes.
    Charles ‘Tex’ Watson, who had been introduced to Manson by Beach Boy, Dennis Wilson, was the Family member Kasabian warmed to most and they developed what each has since described as an intense sexual and personal relationship. Watson persuaded her to steal money from her ex-husband’s friend, ‘Blackbeard’ Melton and when she handed it over, the Family members accepted her as one of them, a devoted follower of Manson.
    She described Manson as Christ-like in appearance, no accident, one imagines, on his part, and on the day she first met him, she was entranced. That night she and Manson made love in a cave close to the ranch. She has said that she felt as if he could ‘see right through her’. Like the other Family girls, she fell completely under his spell and was prepared to do whatever he asked of her.
    The Family would undertake regular expeditions known as ‘Creepy crawls’ in which they would break into houses in Los Angeles while the owners were in bed asleep. They lived on what they stole in these operations and Kasabian was soon participating in them. She had no qualms about stealing because Manson had told them in one of his many quasi-spiritual campfire lectures, ‘Everything belongs to everyone.’
    One of Manson’s main beliefs was that an apocalyptic war was imminent. ‘Helter Skelter’, as he called it, after the Beatles song of that name, would be a result of racial tension between blacks and whites. He wanted to make an album of music that would contain subtle, hidden messages that would help start the war. In the summer of 1969, when the album did not look like happening, he decided to show the way. On 8 August he announced that it was time for Helter Skelter.
    Kasabian was the only Family member with a driving licence and on that night she was instructed by Manson to collect a knife and a change of clothing and drive ‘Tex’ Watson, Susan Atkins and Patricia Krenwinkel to a house in Cielo Drive that was being rented by respected film director, Roman Polanski, and his acress wife, Sharon Tate.
    On arrival at the quiet, secluded house, the group cut the telephone wires and climbed a fence into the grounds. When they saw the headlights of a car approach, Watson hissed to the girls to hide in the bushes. As the car approached slowly, Watson pulled a gun and shot the driver, killing him. Eighteen-year-old Stephen Parent had been visiting his friend, William Garretson, the caretaker, who was living in the property’s guesthouse.
    Watson cut a hole in a screen at an open window. He told Kasabian to wait in the car and keep lookout while he, Atkins and Krenwinkel disappeared into the house through the window.
    Sitting in the car, Kasabian began to hear horrible screams emanating from the house. She clambered out of her seat and began running towards the noise. ‘I knew they had killed that man (Parent), that they were killing these people. I wanted them to stop,’ she said later. She was frozen in her tracks on the driveway, however, by the sight of a man staggering out of the door. ‘…he had blood all over his face and he was standing by a post,’ she would testify ‘and we looked into each other’s eyes for a minute, and I said, ‘Oh God, I am so sorry. Please make it stop,’ The man collapsed into some bushes.
    Inside, Polanski’s friend, Wojciech Fryowski, had been asleep on a couch in the living room. He awoke to find Watson standing in front of