Russell Brand pleads not guilty of rape in the United Kingdom, accusations of sexual assault
Russell Brand appeared on Friday in a London court after being accused of rape, indecent and sexual assault, pleading not guilty of the five accusations.
The first hearing of the disgrace actor had taken place earlier this month after it was confirmed that the Crown’s prosecution service had authorized metropolitan police to instill a man, identified as a 49-year-old brand, following a detective investigation.
Brand, 49, had been charged with a rape chief, an indecent assault chief, an oral rape chief and two chiefs of sexual assault. The BBC said he had pleaded not guilty of the five accusations during his appearance on Friday at Southwark Crown Court in London.
Brand is now facing a test that should start on June 3, 2026.
The crimes which he was charged concerned a rape of 1999 in the Bournemouth region in the United Kingdom; An indecent assault in 2001 of a woman in Westminster, London; 2004 oral rape and a woman’s sexual assault in Westminster, London; And between 2004 and 2005, the sexual assault of another woman in Westminster.
When the official accusations were published, Brand, who turned to Christianity and was baptized since generalized allegations were revealed, responded to accusations of a shared video on his social networks, declaring: “I have never engaged in a non -consensual activity. I pray so that you can see this by looking in my eyes.”
The detectives began to investigate in September 2023 after receiving a number of allegations, which followed the reports of the Channel 4 Dispatches And The Sunday Times. The program broadcast many allegations against Brand. One of the women said Dispatches This brand entered a relationship with it when he was 31 years old and she was 16 years old. Their relationship lasted three months, she said, and the brand had been “emotionally abusive and controlling”. Another said that Brand had raped her in 2012 in her house in Los An Sunday.
British celebrity denied all the claims against him, which date between 2006 and 2013, while the brand was at the top of its fame The big brother’s big mouth,, Kings of comedy And Rijack of the big brother’s celebrity. Later, an investigation commissioned by Banijay UK discovered that informal complaints concerning the brand were filed more than 20 years ago on the set, and another review on Brand’s behavior at the BBC, in particular between 2006 and 2008, when he worked for 6 music and radio 2, revealed that colleagues thought that he would always go to his way, and therefore remained silent “.
