Russell Brand convicted of rape and sexual assault in expanded case

A Southwark Crown Court jury found Russell Brand guilty of one rape and three sexual assaults on November 5, 2026.

The jury included eight men and four women. It deliberated for more than eight hours before reaching its verdicts.

The case had developed from an initial prosecution involving four women. The Crown Prosecution Service authorised charges concerning reported non-recent offences between 1999 and 2005. Those original charges comprised two rape allegations, one indecent-assault allegation and two sexual-assault allegations.

The Metropolitan Police described the charges as including rape, oral rape, indecent assault and two sexual assaults. The alleged offences were said to have taken place in Bournemouth and Westminster.

Brand was scheduled to attend Westminster Magistrates’ Court on May 2, 2025.

The Crown Prosecution Service also authorised two additional charges involving reported offences in 2009. One concerned a rape allegation and the other concerned a sexual-assault allegation. Those allegations involved two further women.

With the additional charges, the case involved six women and seven charges in total.

The verdict followed the expansion of the case beyond the original allegations concerning offences between 1999 and 2005. The reported conduct in the expanded case covered the period from 1999 through 2009.

The initial charges and the later additions were authorised by the Crown Prosecution Service, while the Metropolitan Police listed the alleged offences and the locations connected with the first set of charges.

The jury’s decision established convictions on one rape count and three sexual-assault counts. The available verified record also identifies the size and gender composition of the jury and the length of its deliberations.

The case therefore moved from five initial charges involving four women to seven charges involving six women. The verified record identifies the later charges as one rape allegation and one sexual-assault allegation connected to reported offences in 2009.