New information from 'several people' about Russell Brand being assessed by police

Several people have contacted police with allegations and information about Russell Brand during his trial and after it concluded.

On Monday, the disgraced comedian and actor, 51, was sentenced to 10 years and six months in prison, after being convicted of one count of rape and three counts of sexual assault.

Last week, it was revealed two further rape allegations against Brand were already being investigated and Metropolitan Police commissioner Sir Mark Rowley said he expected more victims to come forward.

A spokesperson for the force said on Tuesday: "Several people have contacted the investigation team during and since the trial to provide information or report a potential criminal allegation.

"Detectives are assessing this information as part of their ongoing enquiries."

Jemima Goldsmith, a British journalist and screenwriter and former girlfriend of Brand, posted on social media hours after he was sentenced to say she had personally experienced Brand's "violence, coercive control and abuse".

She said she was "in awe of the courageous women who came forward" during the trial, adding she helped the journalists who exposed him.

"I had to call the police to have him removed from my house in 2014 during a violent incident," she wrote.

Goldsmith said she chose not to press charges and go public as she was worried about the impact of press attention on her children.

"I am glad and relieved that Russell Brand has finally faced justice," Goldsmith said.

The pair dated for about a year in 2014, and Goldsmith said she has "neither seen nor spoken to Brand since that period".

The former head of Channel 4 News offered "personal thanks" to Jemima Goldsmith, saying she "alerted" her to Brand being a potential "danger to other women".

In a post on X, Dorothy Byrne said Goldsmith alerted her to Brand "because she believed, based on her own experience, he was a danger to other women and must be exposed".

Byrne told Sky News on Monday that a key reason she started an investigation into Brand - which the channel eventually aired as a Dispatches documentary in 2023 - was because she heard allegations that "led me to believe he was a danger to women who should be locked up".

Brand's convictions last week at London's Southwark Crown Court relate to offences committed against four different women between 2004 and 2009.

He was convicted of raping a woman in 2009. She told the court that after consensual vaginal sex, and without warning or consent, Brand anally raped her, leaving her in such pain she was unable to "speak or breathe".

Brand was convicted of sexually assaulting a female Channel 4 worker in 2009, shortly after he had started dating pop star Katy Perry.

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The woman, who was working alone with Brand and his entourage, was forced to massage him, and at one point he knelt down and put his head in her lap, with his nose and mouth in her "vaginal area".

Brand was found guilty of sexually assaulting a woman at a bar in Soho in 2004, where he grabbed her breasts within seconds of meeting her. She was left "extremely upset and traumatised", the judge said.

Brand was also convicted for sexually assaulting a Choice FM worker in either 2004 or 2005. She told the court he kissed her "sloppily", groped her body, and laughed when she eventually managed to push him away.

Brand was acquitted of two other rape charges and one count of attempted indecent assault.

The 51-year-old had denied all the charges, claiming all the sexual contact was consensual as he pursued an extremely promiscuous lifestyle during the height of his fame.

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