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Russell Brand faces new rape and sexual assault charges
The comedian and actor is due to appear at Westminster magistrates’ court on January 20 to face the new charges
https://www.thetimes.com/uk/crime/article/russell-brand-further-charges-rape-sexual-assault-metropolitan-police-5hg9xkx3w
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Russell Brand, the comedian and actor, has been charged with two further offences, one rape and one sexual assault, after a Times and Sunday Times investigation into his treatment of women. The new allegations, relating to two women and dating from 2009, are in addition to five charges brought against Brand in April.
He was accused of two rapes, one indecent assault and two sexual assaults against four women between 1999 and 2005. It means Brand now faces allegations in relation to six women. He is due to appear at Westminster magistrates’ court on January 20 to face the two new charges.
Brand, 50, pleaded not guilty in May to the first set of charges, which included an allegation that he raped a woman in the Bournemouth area in 1999 and another woman in London in 2004. A trial has been scheduled at Southwark crown court in June next year in relation to the five original charges.
Detectives began investigating a number of allegations in September 2023 after a joint investigation by The Times, The Sunday Times and Channel 4’s Dispatches.
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