Comedian Brand charged with rape and sexual assault

Comedian Russell Brand has been charged with rape, indecent assault, oral rape and two counts of sexual assault, the Metropolitan Police has announced.

- AMY-CLARE MARTIN

The 49-year-old is facing allegations relating to four women over incidents between 1999 and 2005. The charges come after the police received a number of allegations, which followed a joint investigation by Channel 4 Dispatches and The Sunday Times in September 2023.

Mr Brand, who is understood to now live in the US, was charged by post and issued a court summons. He is accused of raping a woman in the Bournemouth area in 1999 and indecently assaulting a woman in the Westminster area of London in 2001.

He is further accused of orally raping and sexually assaulting a woman in Westminster in 2004. A fourth woman was allegedly sexually assaulted in Westminster between 2004 and 2005.