British comedian and actor Russell Brand was sentenced on Monday to 10 years and six months in prison after a jury convicted him of raping one woman in 2009 and sexually assaulting three others between 2004 and 2009.
The sentence for the decades-old sex crimes was handed down at Southwark Crown Court in London by Judge Joel Bennathan following a four-week trial.
Brand, 51, was found guilty last week of one count of rape and three counts of sexual assault. He was acquitted of two additional rape counts and one charge of attempted indecent assault.
The rape conviction carries a nine-year prison term.
The three sexual assault convictions received sentences of nine months, 18 months, and eight months, to run concurrently with one another but consecutively to the rape sentence, for a total of 10 years and six months.
Brand must serve two-thirds of the sentence before becoming eligible for parole. He will remain on the sex offenders’ register for life.
Judge Bennathan described Brand as a “sexual predator” who told a “series of lies” and displayed “staggering arrogance.”
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Brand had been denied bail after the conviction and was already in custody at HMP Wandsworth.
The convictions relate to four of the six women who made allegations against Brand spanning the mid-to-late 2000s.
One incident involved Brand groping a woman’s breasts at a London bar in 2004.
Another involved sexual assault at a radio station in 2004 or 2005.
A third occurred in 2009 during work on a Channel 4 project.
The alleged rape took place at Brand’s west London home in 2009 after he met the woman at one of his shows.
Victim impact statements were read in court, with one woman describing lasting trauma and fear of contracting HIV.
The women never went to police and only came forward after being approached by journalists during 2023 investigations by The Times, The Sunday Times, and Channel 4’s Dispatches.
Brand had pleaded not guilty to all charges and maintained that he never had non-consensual sex.
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