Court hears details of the charges agains Russell Brand

Russell Brand is a ‘sexual predator’ with an ‘insatiable desire’, prosecutors have alleged during the first day of his trial.

The comedian is in court facing three charges of rape, three of sexual assault and one of indecent assault – all of which he denies – dating from 2001 to 2009.

In her opening statement, prosecuting counsel Riel Karmy-Jones KC, detailed all six charges and told the jury: ‘The women that he was coming across meant nothing to him. They were just a means to an end.

‘Six women, separate women, different allegations, they don't know each other. When you hear them, I have no doubt that you will find their evidence compelling.’

Ms Karmy-Jones detailed the allegations: 

• A woman who says Brand raped her in her hotel room after a gig,    ‘pushing’ her onto the bed despite her saying no;

• A woman working in TV who described Brand pulling her into the toilets with a ‘desperate wild-eyed looke’ before she pushed him away;

 • A woman who says Brand pulled her into the toilets in a Soho bar where he forced her to give him oral sex;

• A woman who was working at a radio station, aged 22, when Brand allegedly grabbed her body and kissed her ‘sloppily and aggressively’ until she pushed him off;

• An aspiring comedian who went home with Brand after his gig at the Hammersmith Apollo and had consensual vaginal sex. But afterwards, Brand is said to have penetrated her anally ‘with full force’ and without asking’;

• One woman was working in TV when Brand came in to make an advert and demanded she give him a massage. The comic is alleged to have got on his knees with ‘his face pressed deep into her groin’ until the woman stuck her fingertips into his shoulders. 

After a lunch break, the court started hearing more detailed evidence.  The trial is expected to last six weeks.

Published: 14 Oct 2026