{"id":802393,"date":"2026-10-14T14:16:12","date_gmt":"2026-10-14T14:16:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/802393\/"},"modified":"2026-10-14T14:16:12","modified_gmt":"2026-10-14T14:16:12","slug":"prosecutors-allege-russell-brand-was-ruthless-as-rape-trial-begins","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/802393\/","title":{"rendered":"Prosecutors allege Russell Brand was ‘ruthless’ as rape trial begins"},"content":{"rendered":"

Court hears allegations relating to six women, as prosecution begins casepublished at 13:10 BST<\/p>\n

13:10 BST<\/p>\n

\"\"Katie Williams
Live reporter<\/p>\n

\"SketchImage source, Julia Quenzler \/ BBC<\/p>\n

We have now heard details of all of the offences allegedly committed by Russell Brand.<\/p>\n

The allegations from the first four women were outlined earlier – we’ve recapped those in a previous post<\/a>.<\/p>\n

After a short break in proceedings, the jury then heard how the fifth complainant<\/a> met Brand when he was performing at the Hammersmith Apollo in London in 2009. <\/p>\n

The prosecution says their encounter began with consensual activity – he is then accused of raping her anally on a later occasion. <\/p>\n

The jury heard how the woman “spent months and years blaming herself”, becoming anxious and unwell.<\/p>\n

Brand is said to have texted the woman after seeing her at an event the next summer, saying: “I wanna push you further.” <\/p>\n

She is said to have replied: “I think you pushed me far enough \u2013 you treated me like an animal.” He allegedly replied: “I\u2019m sorry.” <\/p>\n

The sixth complainant<\/a> – who has accused Brand of sexual assault – says he demanded a massage when she was on a work assignment in 2009. <\/p>\n

He “fell to his knees and placed his head directly into her groin area”, the prosecution says.<\/p>\n

He is said to have became “petulant and obstructive” with her when his companions laughed at her calling his shoulders “bony”.<\/p>\n

Brand denies all allegations against him. The defence’s full case will start later in the trial.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Court hears allegations relating to six women, as prosecution begins casepublished at 13:10 BST 13:10 BST Katie WilliamsLive…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":802394,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[59,57,58,50,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-802393","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-united-kingdom","tag-gb","tag-great-britain","tag-greatbritain","tag-news","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/802393","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=802393"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/802393\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/802394"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=802393"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=802393"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=802393"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}