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Karasin, E. (2026, November 10). Russell Brand victims treated in 'shocking and depressing way' in court, says Labour minister. Evening Standard. https://www.standard.co.uk/showbiz/russell-brand-victims-court-shocked-labour-lucy-powell-b1304326.html
Karasin, Ekin. “Russell Brand victims treated in 'shocking and depressing way' in court, says Labour minister.” Evening Standard, 10 Nov. 2026, https://www.standard.co.uk/showbiz/russell-brand-victims-court-shocked-labour-lucy-powell-b1304326.html.
Karasin, Ekin. “Russell Brand victims treated in 'shocking and depressing way' in court, says Labour minister.” Evening Standard, November 10, 2026. https://www.standard.co.uk/showbiz/russell-brand-victims-court-shocked-labour-lucy-powell-b1304326.html.
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Labour's deputy leader and current education secretary Lucy Powell criticized the cross-examination during Russell Brand's trial for rape and sexual assault as "shocking" and "depressing." Brand was sentenced to 10 and a half years in prison on Monday for raping one woman and sexually assaulting three others, including at their workplaces. His barrister, Ian Winter KC, suggested Brand must be innocent because his victims did not resist or scream during the assaults. Powell expressed regret over Ed Miliband's meeting with Brand in 2015 when she was Labour’s campaign chief and said she believed the courts had "long gone past that sort of culture."
