A judge at Southwark Crown Court in London sentenced Russell Brand to ten years and six months in prison on Monday, after a jury convicted the comedian and actor of one count of rape and three counts of sexual assault.
Passing sentence, Mr Justice Benathon told Brand: “Would you stand up please? I pass a sentence of imprisonment for nine months for count three, 18 months for count five, reduced from two years to allow for totality, and eight months for count seven. Those sentences are all concurrent to one another, but consecutive to the sentence for rape. The sentence I pass on count six, rape, is nine years’ imprisonment. So the total sentence is one of ten years, six months.”
The judge said Brand would serve two-thirds of the sentence before being released on licence, and that on release he would be indefinitely subject to the notification requirements under the Sexual Offences Act 2003.
In his sentencing remarks, the judge also told Brand: “It displayed your casual, arrogant disregard of any woman’s right to say no to you,” and: “The whole episode reeks of casual disrespect and your belief that fame meant you could act how you liked, when you liked, unhindered by the rules by which decent people live.”
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