Russell Brand has been sentenced to 10 years and six months in prison after being found guilty of rape and three counts of sexual assault.
The 51-year-old former comedian and actor was sentenced at Southwark Crown Court in London on Monday, 9 November, four days after a jury convicted him of offences against four women committed between 2004 and 2009.
Mr Justice Bennathan sentenced Brand to nine years in prison for rape, and to nine months, 18 months and eight months for the three sexual assaults. The sexual assault sentences will run concurrently with each other but consecutively to the rape sentence, giving a total term of 10 years and six months. Brand must serve two-thirds of the sentence before he can be released on licence.
Sentencing Brand, the judge told him: “About 20 years ago, Russell Brand, you were becoming famous. You were clever – and in many people’s eyes, funny and charismatic. You had also become a sexual predator.”
The jury convicted Brand of raping a woman in 2009 after meeting her at a stand-up show at the Hammersmith Apollo, and of sexually assaulting three other women: at a Soho bar in 2004, at the Choice FM studios in 2005, and a Channel 4 worker in 2009. He was acquitted of two further counts of rape and one count of attempted indecent assault.
Victim impact statements were delivered in court, with one of his victims appearing in person to address Brand directly. Brand, who was clutching a crucifix in the dock as he was jailed, continues to deny all the claims against him.
The Metropolitan Police have confirmed they are investigating two further allegations of rape made against Brand by two other women.
Source: LADBible — https://www.ladbible.com/news/uk-news/russell-brand-sentence-confirmed-161989-20261109
