Brand is now also being investigated over further rape allegations made by two women, police have now said.<\/p>\n
Details in legal documents from a hearing at London’s Southwark Crown Court before Brand’s criminal trial began suggest that one of the women was 16 years old at the time and featured in a Channel 4 documentary.<\/p>\n
Brand was accused by four women of rape, sexual assaults and emotional abuse in a joint Channel 4 Dispatches, Times and Sunday Times investigation in September 2023.<\/p>\n
The actor and comedian denied the allegations.<\/p>\n
None of the women who featured in the media investigation were the complainants from Brand’s criminal trial.<\/p>\n
On Thursday it emerged that Brand was facing further rape allegations made by two women. The Metropolitan police said he had previously been interviewed under caution in relation to them.<\/p>\n
During a pre-trial hearing in October Brand tried unsuccessfully to have his criminal case thrown out.<\/p>\n
His lawyers argued that the actor and entertainer couldn’t receive a fair trial because of the publicity following the Dispatches programme.<\/p>\n
Prosecutors opposed Brand’s application to have his case stopped.<\/p>\n
It was during that hearing that the prosecution said one of the complaints made in the documentary was being investigated.<\/p>\n
Riel Karmy-Jones KC said: “Of the four women in the Ch4 documentary, two concern events outside the jurisdiction.<\/p>\n
“One did not disclose any offence. The other is being investigated.<\/p>\n
“There had been some interaction in 2018, she did not report the matter until 2024, after the documentary was aired.”<\/p>\n
In documents submitted to the court for the hearing prosecutors also said it was “plainly incorrect” to say there had been a decision not to investigate.<\/p>\n
“The outstanding charges against RB in respect of ‘Alice’ from Dispatches demonstrate that there has been no such decision \u2013 rather that the police will and have responded appropriately once a formal allegation is made.”<\/p>\n
The head of the Metropolitan Police has said he “wouldn’t be surprised” if more people came forward to make allegations about Russell Brand.<\/p>\n
Sir Mark Rowley also told BBC Radio 4’s Today programme on Friday that what he heard reported from Brand’s trial at Southwark Crown Court came very close to “victim blaming”.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Brand is now also being investigated over further rape allegations made by two women, police have now said.…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":826177,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[6491,96,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-826176","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-celebrities","tag-celebrities","tag-entertainment","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/826176","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=826176"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/826176\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/826177"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=826176"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=826176"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=826176"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}