Russell Brand

[kevlee]

Do you think there may have been a pre trial bias by the jury? Perhaps they already had connotations about brands previous behaviors before even becoming part of jury? However would we know?

We don’t know. If any of us had to serve on a jury for a well k own person in a case of sexual or domestic abuse allegations I’m sure we would have a pre conception in some way. That’s why I support judge only trials in high profile cases as have worked in Ulster and Dublin for many years

 

[PalazioVecchio]

You’re a disgrace, eagle.

your constant moralistic crusade gets a bit tedious after a while. This is your fantasy below. The reality is a Soya Latte from Starbucks.....

 

[Phil’s Barber]

The sexual assault charge. He fondled her breasts at the bar but then she gave him a blow job and had sex with him? 🤔

Yes indeed. Brand faced one indictment of sexual assault whereby the allegation was that he touched someone’s breasts. Yet a short while later she was willingly giving him oral sex in the bathroom.

Quite extraordinary.

 

[Phil’s Barber]

Not true.

Pre–2023 allegations
In a 2006 interview, Dannii Minogue said Brand had sexually harassed her after she appeared on his TV show. She described him as "a bit of a vile predator", adding: "I certainly don't think he has cured his sex addiction." She said that Brand "wouldn't take no for an answer" and "throughout the whole interview he kept making shocking remarks that I can't even repeat".[13][181]

In 2007, on Brand's BBC Radio 2 comedy show, he called former Jim'll Fix It host Jimmy Savile and asked to meet him. Savile answered that that would only happen if Brand brought along his sister if he had one. In response, Brand joked: "I've got a personal assistant ... and part of her job description is that anyone I demand she greet, meet, massages, she has to do it. She's very attractive, Jimmy".[182] When he asked Savile what she should wear, Savile replied he would "prefer her to wear nothing".[182][183] The exchange between Brand and Savile was featured in the 2023 Channel 4 Dispatches documentary Russell Brand: In Plain Sight.[184]

From 2006 to 2008, Brand received two complaints while he was a BBC radio host and presenter of both sexual misconduct and unprofessional workplace behaviour, with a further six complaints received afterwards.[185] In 2014, former girlfriend Jordan Martin said Brand had committed sexual assault and physical and emotional abuse during their six-month relationship in 2007.[186] She accused Brand of assaulting her at the Lowry Hotel in Salford when he became angry after discovering she had spoken to an ex-boyfriend.[186]

In June 2014, a masseuse accused Brand of assault at his home, and treating her "like a prostitute". Thames Valley Police closed the investigation without charges. Brand and Jemima Goldsmith won a High Court injunction for harassment.[187][188] After Brand's 2026 conviction, the think tank Tax Policy Associates published the injunction, revealing that it prohibits the accuser from discussing the alleged assault with anyone except her legal advisers or doctors.[189]

While filming a programme with Brand in 2018, Katherine Ryan reportedly made remarks to Brand indicating he was a "sexual predator" that were not broadcast.[190] She discussed these comments on Louis Theroux Interviews (Series 1, Episode 5), broadcast in November 2022,[191] stating: "...I informed him to his face, that he was a predator", and: "...this person I believe very strongly, so do a lot of people believe very strongly, it is an open secret, is a perpetrator of sexual assault"; however, still without naming him, she remarked: "It is a litigious minefield".
Sunday Times/Channel 4 investigation (2023)

None of which he was on trial for and none of which formed the basis of any of the indictments against him.

This is exactly the point his defence barrister was making when he highlighted the witch hunt against his client and that Brand was unable to receive a fair trial on the case evidence alone because of bias and prejudice against him.