Russell Brand due for sentencing after rape and sexual assault convictions

Russell Brand is due to be sentenced on 9 November 2026 at Southwark Crown Court in London, after a jury convicted him of raping one woman and sexually assaulting three others. The Crown Prosecution Service (CPS), the public body that brings criminal cases in England and Wales, described the convictions as non-recent sexual offences against four women. CPS

The verdicts followed a four-week trial at the same court. The jury retired to consider its verdicts, and the judge told jurors that only a unanimous decision could be accepted on the seven charges. Brand was acquitted of two further rape charges and of one count of attempted indecent assault.

Brand, who is 51, has denied all the charges against him. He has said he never had non-consensual sex. Reuters He was told he faces a lengthy jail sentence. He was held at HMP Wandsworth, a London prison, over the weekend before being taken to Southwark Crown Court in a prison van on 9 November.

Laura Brand, Brand's 39-year-old wife, was the only witness to give character evidence for him, which is testimony about a person's general good character. She gave it on 29 October. The couple have three young children together.

Separately, the Metropolitan Police have been investigating further rape allegations against Brand, including one involving a then 16-year-old girl. The investigation, named Operation Actinolite, involved speaking to more than 100 witnesses, reviewing more than 1,400 documents and taking more than 340 statements. Officers questioned Brand about complaints from two other women and submitted the files to crown prosecutors.

The CPS had earlier authorised charges against Brand including rape, sexual assault and indecent assault, and later authorised two further rape charges. Brand has also been named in a civil claim filed at the High Court in London. The claim alleges he sexually assaulted a woman at his mansion in Los Angeles in 2008.