English Celebrity is going to Prison

Russell Brand was just convicted:

The comedian and actor has been found guilty of sexually assaulting a woman at a bar in London in 2004.

They’d been at a birthday party in Soho and had been chatting at the bar for less than a minute when Brand grabbed her breasts.

He has been found guilty of sexually assaulting a woman at the Choice FM studios in London in either 2004 or 2005. He grabbed her face and kissed her before touching her breasts and bottom.

Brand has also been found guilty of raping a woman at his then home in London in 2009, days after meeting her at the Hammersmith Apollo theatre where he’d been performing a comedy show.

She visited his home in Hampstead where they had consensual sex before he anally raped her. She had told the court “he hurt me and harmed me and when I asked him to stop he didn’t”.

Brand has also been found guilty of a sexual assault charge while working on a Channel 4 project in 2009.

The 51-year-old laid his head into the groin area of a woman working with him at the time without her consent.

The woman said his mouth and nose were in her vaginal area. She told the court she was repulsed at the situation and reported the incident to her line manager at the time.

I did not follow this case. It is hard to how evidence could prove him guilty beyond reasonable doubt.