00:00About 20 years ago, Russell Brand, you were becoming famous. You were clever and, in many
00:07people's eyes, funny and charismatic. You had also become a sexual predator. Your status protected
00:15you until 2023, when journalists collected and published the allegations that were broadcast
00:23as a Channel 4 documentary and in articles in the Times newspapers. Those public declarations
00:32that you were a sex offender empowered a number of women to come forward and tell their stories
00:38of your activities many years before. It was July 2024 and she had seen you on the television
00:48and wanted to be introduced to you as she thought you were funny. You were told there was a woman
00:53who wanted to meet you. That was all you needed to feel entitled to grab her breasts as she
01:00sat talking to you. In your trial, you said you had never touched a woman sexually without
01:06her consent and that included this woman. In the light of the jury's verdicts, that was
01:12one of a series of lies you told. In her victim impact statement, which she read to the court
01:20this morning, she spoke of being extremely upset and traumatised, feeling vulnerable every time she
01:27went out for the evening and feeling sick on the many occasions she saw you in newspapers or on the
01:35television. In terms of the relevant guideline, that offence falls into category 3B. It displayed your
01:43casual, arrogant disregard of any woman's right to say no to you. The whole episode reeks of casual
01:51disrespect and your belief that fame meant you could act how you liked, when you liked, unhindered by the
01:59rules by which decent people live. Your victim for that offence wrote in her impact statement of being
02:06left upset, losing her trust in people and not feeling safe in her workplace. In spring 2009, you
02:15raped the victim in count six. She was 21, you were 33. She was a huge fan of yours, which
02:23you were happy to
02:24exploit. She had willing, consensual sexual activity with you after your show. You took her phone number and
02:34if anyone still needs any demonstration of your contempt for your casual sexual partners, you stored her
02:42number under T for tart. Count seven shows yet again your staggering arrogance and it shows how your
02:51entourage indulged your dreadful behaviour. Whatever women wear, wherever they go, indeed whatever they drink,
03:01they retain the right to say no and to demand justice from the criminal courts when sexual
03:09predators like you, Rosser Brand, act without their consent. I pause to pay tribute to the determination
03:17and bravery of all the women whose evidence I have been recounting. I do not increase your punishment
03:25because of it, but all those women had to face being confronted and being told they'd lied or twisted the
03:33truth and or they'd agreed to your sexual demands. That was all done because of you on your instructions.
