The 51-year-old actor and comedian has been charged with seven offences, including rape, sexual assault, and indecent assault, but has denied all charges.
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actor → charge → charges
The alleges offences are reported to have occurred at a variety of venues including hotel rooms, a toilet cubicle, and at his home address.
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offences → allege → address
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The complainants met Brand either through their employment or through social events, according to the prosecution who opened the trial on October 14.
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who → read → October
The victims, who are each being cross-examined by Brand’s defence team, have told the court how he supposedly made advances within just minutes of meeting them.
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As the fifth day of the trial unravels, we look at the five most shocking claims to have emerged so far from Brand’s trial.
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What have we heard and seen from the Russell Brand trial?
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Victim struggled to breathe in “monster-like” attack
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Victim → struggle → attack
The court watched as the woman broke down in the witness box, saying she “couldn’t fight back”.
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she → watch → box
“He just changed suddenly from this… camp, friendly and effeminate to monster-like”, she said.
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she → change → like
“He was big, I felt threatened and he’s half-naked…
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he → feel → ?
I didn’t think at that point his intentions were good.”
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intentions → think → point
She continued: “He was just dark and arrogant and performing – he was scary, he was demanding.”
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he → continue → ?
The woman said she told Brand “no” and said she struggled to breathe when Brand was on top of her.
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Brand → say → her
Brand’s defence team accused the woman of not telling the complete truth about her encounter with Brand and suggested that she would have left the hotel room if she was in danger of being raped.
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she → accuse → danger
She asked: “Where am I supposed to go?
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I → ask → ?
Run into the night and him chase after me?
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him → run → me
“Of course I wanted to distance myself but I had nowhere to run.”
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I → want → nowhere
Brand: ‘It’s just fun’ during alleged rape
The same woman claimed that Brand had told her “it’s just fun” as he allegedly raped her in a hotel room at the Labour Party conference.
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A court heard that the comedian stripped off his clothes and pranced around the room “like Basil Fawlty” before pushing her onto the bed and lying on top of her.
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In her recorded interview, which was played to the court on the second day of the trial, the woman said Brand told her “it’s normal” as the attack unfolded.
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attack → record → her
“He was just saying ‘we’re having fun, it’s fine, it’s all good’,” she recalled.
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she → say → fun
“Don’t worry about it, it’s just fun, it’s normal.”
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it → worry → it
She added: “It was almost like trying to convince me it’s all OK.
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I’d have to learn to enjoy it.”
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The woman said that the alleged attack made her feel “dirty” and as if it was her fault.
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it → say → ?
The court also heard that the woman had nightmares about the possibility of being pregnant following the attack.
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woman → hear → attack
It was also alleged that Brand had asked the woman to take a photo of him topless during the attack.
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Brand → allege → attack
Brand allegedly dragged woman into male toilet
Brand’s second accuser told the court on the third day of the trial that the comedian had dragged her into a male toilet.
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comedian → drag → toilet
She claimed that Brand “grabbed” her by the arm, saying ‘come on, come in with me’.
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Brand → claim → me
The court heard that Brand had “a wild look in his eyes” as he attempted to pull the woman into the toilet.
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he → hear → toilet
The exchange is understood to have lasted 20 seconds.
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When asked how she felt after the alleged attack, she said she felt “bewildered” and “confused.”
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she → ask → attack
Brand’s barrister, Ian Winter KC, suggested that the woman had only decided to report Brand after seeing the 2023 documentary about his alleged sexual misconduct.
“I don’t think it’s quite as straightforward as that,” she replied.
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“It would have been my word against his, I had a job to consider, I came away relatively unscathed, and he didn’t rape me.
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he → have → me
“I managed to get myself out of the situation and I wanted a quiet life.”
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I → manage → life
Brand had “big grin” as he grabbed woman’s breasts in third alleged rape
Brand’s third accuser alleged that she was sexually attacked by him at a bar in Soho in 2004.
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The court heard that Brand “grabbed [her] boobs” while sporting a “weird maniacal grin”, before allegedly forcing her to carry out a sex act in a toilet.
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Afterwards, she claimed Brand showed her his penis in a car.
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Brand → claim → car
She said: “I don’t know whether I was guided to the car, or walked there myself.
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I → say → car
I just have no recollection of how that happened.
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that → have → recollection
…and 21 more, not listed.
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