Russell Brand Sentenced To 10 Years And 6 Months For Rape And Three Counts Of Sexual Assault

Russell Brand has been sentenced to 10 years and six months in prison after being convicted of raping one woman and sexually assaulting three others.

The sentences for each guilty count of sexual assault were 9 months, 18 months, and 8 months. These will be served concurrently, meaning Brand will serve a total of 18 months for these 3 crimes.

On the count of rape, Brand was sentenced to 9 years. This term will be not be served concurrently to those given for the sexual assault charges, meaning that the 9 year term and the 18 month term will be served one after another, adding up to the 10 year and 6 month total sentence.

The three sexual assault convictions relate to separate incidents in which Brand grabbed a woman's breasts at a London bar, grabbed and kissed a woman before touching her breasts and bottom at the Choice FM studios, and placed his head against the groin of a woman working with him on a Channel 4 project without her consent.

The 51-year-old appeared at Southwark Crown Court on Monday, November 9, after a jury found him guilty of four sexual offences following a four-week trial.

The convictions relate to four women and incidents which took place between 2004 and 2009, during Brand's rise to fame as a comedian, television presenter and actor.

One of the convictions relates to the rape of a 21-year-old woman in 2009. The woman had met Brand after attending one of his stand-up shows at the Hammersmith Apollo. She told the court that although she had initially engaged in consensual sexual activity with him, he later raped her at his home.

The other convictions relate to three separate sexual assaults.

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