Claims extracted
20
sentences that state something as happening or true
Uncertain
10%
2 of 20 hedged
("reportedly", "may", "according to")
Leaning
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Publisher signals
66/100
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One of Russell Brand’s accusers said she would have been told “you’re lucky” if she had tried to report the A-List star for kissing and groping in a radio station corridor.
asserted
she → say → corridor
“There was a culture of fear,” she said, recalling the atmosphere at the time as “people-pleasing”.
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she → be → pleasing
Questioned by Brand’s barrister Ian Winter KC why she had not reported the incident and suggesting she had a professional “obligation”, the woman hit out at workplace “banter” at the time.
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woman → question → time
“It wasn’t an environment where management were coming to talk to us about workplace behaviour, that didn’t exist.”
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that → come → behaviour
Talking about what may have happened had she raised the alleged assault with her line manager, she told jurors: “I think they probably would have said something along the lines of: ‘Oh, you’re lucky.’”
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you → talk → lines
She insisted that Brand “wasn’t my type of person”, and defended calling him a “stranger” in her evidence because she had met many celebrities – naming Beyonce and Samuel L Jackson – but insisting they are “not people that I say I know”.
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I → insist → that
The woman said she had been “triggered” to come forward to police after seeing a 2023 Dispatches documentary on sexual misconduct allegations about Brand.
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she → say → Brand
“I had buried it so deep for so long,” she told the court.
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she → bury → court
The woman has told jurors she was pinned against a wall by Brand in a corridor, before being groped and kissed “hard” while three men and a woman looked on without intervening.
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men → tell → corridor
She broke down in tears in witness box as she insisted: “I don’t gain a single thing” by reporting the incident and giving evidence.
“This was a situation that I don’t need to be in, I don’t gain a single thing by saying Russell Brand did that to me,” she said.
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she → break → me
She told the court part of her motive for coming forward was seeing a video of Brand addressing the allegations against him from Dispatches and saying that his past sexual encounters were all consensual.
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encounters → tell → Dispatches
The woman said: “I was shocked, I was disgusted that he said it was consensual, that really upset me, it triggered in me that anger.”
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it → say → anger
She also told the court that she struggled to understand why the men and woman who witnessed the incident “didn’t do anything to stop him”.
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who → tell → him
The woman added: “I wonder if I was alone with him what would have happened.
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what → add → him
“There is a man who is mauling me in front of people.”
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who → be → people
She told jurors that she “locked eyes” with the other woman and was “pleading with her” to stop it.
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she → tell → it
At the end of his cross-examination, Mr Winter suggested that the woman had not known it was Brand at the time, but her allegation “became Brand after Dispatches”.
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allegation → suggest → Dispatches
The woman replied: “No, it didn’t.
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it → reply → ?
Brand denies three counts of rape, three counts of sexual assault, and one count of indecent assault.
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Brand → deny → assault
The trial continues.
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trial → continue → ?
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