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Breaking: Russell Brand found guilty of rape and sexual assault
Russell Brand has had his bail revoked after a jury found him guilty of rape and three counts of sexual assault.
UK police say they are investigating allegations of rape made by two other women.
British comedian and actor Russell Brand faces a "significant" jail sentence after being found guilty in a London court of rape and sexual assault.
Warning: This article includes allegations of sexual assault some readers may find distressing.
The 51-year-old had been on trial in Southwark Crown Court on three counts of rape, three counts of sexual assault and one count of attempted indecent assault relating to six women in the United Kingdom between 1999 and 2009.
Russell Brand found guilty of rape and sexual assault
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Russell Brand has been found guilty of rape and sexual assault charges involving four women on allegations dating back more than 20 years.
Judge Joel Bennathan said the British actor-comedian faces a “significant” prison term when he is sentenced on Monday. The judge refused a bail application because of the possibility Brand might flee, and he was taken into custody on Thursday (UK time).
“I regret the hardship caused to the children, of course,” the judge said. “But the hardship has been caused by serious criminal offending by their father.”
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The downfall of Russell Brand: from Big Brother and Hollywood to convicted rapist
Former comedian long traded on his extreme persona, yet many will wonder how he was allowed to act in plain sight for so long
In the early 1990s, when he was a student at the Italia Conti theatre school, a teenage Russell Brand became so fixated on a classmate that he followed her for 200 miles, trailing her through the streets of London before sneaking, ticketless, on to her train to Wigan.
By his own admission, she did not want him to accompany her, far less come to her family home, but he did anyway, and got into bed with her. There, he “lied and danced and evoked the spirit of Pan till she reluctantly removed her bra” before deploying “tears and emotional blackmail to secure the immolation of her knickers”.
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