Russell Brand has been sentenced to 10 years and six months in prison after being found guilty of rape and three counts of sexual assault.
The sentences for each guilty count of sexual assault were 9 months, 18 months, and 8 months. These will be served concurrently, meaning the actor will serve a total of 18 months for these 3 crimes.
On the count of rape, Brand was sentenced to 9 years. This term will be not be served concurrently to those given for the sexual assault charges, meaning that the 9 year term and the 18 month term will be served one after another, adding up to the 10 year and 6 month total sentence.
The three sexual assault convictions relate to separate incidents in which Brand grabbed a woman's breasts at a London bar, grabbed and kissed a woman before touching her breasts and bottom at the Choice FM studios, and placed his head against the groin of a woman working with him on a Channel 4 project without her consent.
Russell Brand. Editorial credit: Repic / Shutterstock
The 51-year-old former comedian was sentenced at Southwark Crown Court in London on Monday, November 9, following a four-week trial.
Brand was found guilty last Thursday of raping a 21-year-old woman in 2009 and sexually assaulting three other women between 2004 and 2009.
The jury cleared him of two further charges of rape and one allegation of attempted indecent assault.
The offences involved four women and took place during the period when Brand was becoming one of Britain's best-known entertainers, with a successful career in stand-up comedy, television, radio and film.
Brand denied all the charges against him, maintaining that his sexual encounters had been consensual.
He was taken into custody immediately after the guilty verdicts were delivered last Thursday, after the judge refused his application for bail. Mr Justice Joel Bennathan had warned him to expect a significant prison sentence.
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