The Met police detective and prosecutor in the case thanked the victims for their 'courage' and 'bravery' as Russell Brand's four-week trial at Southwark crown court ended in guilty verdicts
Senior Crown prosecutor David Roberts and Det Supt Andy Furphy, from the Met police, praised the 'extraordinary courage, resilience and determination' of Russell Brand’s victims. Brand has been found guilty of raping a woman and sexually assaulting three others over the course of five years of his show-business career.
Russell Brand found guilty of rape and sexual assault
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Russell Brand was sentenced for rape and three counts of sexual assault at Southwark Crown Court on Monday.
Russell Brand, who became a celebrity darling in the early 2000s, was found guilty on one count of rape and three counts of sexual assault in a case brought by six women.
The new allegations come three days after Brand was sentenced to more than a decade in prison for raping one woman and sexually assaulting three others.
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The convicted rapist's former partner says she called the police to remove him from her home during "a violent incident" in 2014.
Russell Brand spent years trying to preemptively save himself from a legal reckoning by self-imposing a moral one, being the first to admit his sins and hoping it would save him.
