Russell Brand Sentenced to 10 Years in Prison After London Rape Trial

Russell Brand has been sentenced to 10 years in prison after a London court convicted him of rape and sexual assault, Variety reported.

The comedian, who is 51, was found guilty on three counts of sexual assault and one count of rape. The verdicts followed a four-week trial at Southwark Crown Court, which the Crown Prosecution Service (CPS), the public body that brings criminal cases in England and Wales, announced. All of the convictions relate to non-recent offences, meaning offences committed some years before the case came to court.

He faced seven charges in total. He was found not guilty of two other rape charges and one count of attempted indecent assault. The charges concerned allegations that he raped three women at various locations between 1999 and 2009.

Brand denied all the charges. Reuters reported that he said he had never had non-consensual sex.

Before sentencing, the court told him to expect a prison term "of some length", according to the BBC. After the judge refused to grant him conditional bail, he was taken into police custody.

The case is not closed. The CPS said in December 2025 that it had authorised two further rape charges against Brand. Lionel Idan, the Chief Crown Prosecutor, announced those charges. The Metropolitan Police has also confirmed that it is investigating further allegations of rape made by two other women.

For the women who gave evidence, the outcome marks the end of a criminal case that ran for years before it reached a courtroom. For readers following Brand's career, it is a sharp change from the public profile he built as a stand-up comedian, actor and broadcaster. Those are the facts the record now holds: a conviction, a 10-year sentence, and two police investigations that have not yet ended.