Watch extended video of 'sexual predator' Russell Brand's sentencing

About 20 years ago, Russell Brand, you were becoming famous. You were clever and, in many people's eyes, funny and charismatic. You had also become a sexual predator. Your status protected you until 2023, when journalists collected and published the allegations that were broadcast as a Channel 4 documentary and in articles in the Times newspapers. Those public declarations that you were a sex offender empowered a number of women to come forward and tell their stories of your activities many years before. It was July 2024 and she had seen you on the television and wanted to be introduced to you as she thought you were funny. You were told there was a woman who wanted to meet you. That was all you needed to feel I feel entitled to grab her breasts as she sat talking to you. In your trial, you said you'd never touched a woman sexually without her consent, and that included this woman. In the light of the jury's verdicts, that was one of a series of lies you told. In her victim impact statement, which she read to the court this morning, she spoke of being extremely upset and traumatised. Feeling vulnerable every time she went out for the evening and feeling sick on the many occasions she saw you in newspapers or on the television. In terms of the relevant guideline, that offence falls into category 3B. It displayed your casual, arrogant disregard of any woman's right to say no to you. The whole episode reeks of casual disrespect and your belief that fame meant you could act how you liked, when you liked, unhindered by the rules by which decent people live. Your victim for that offence wrote in her impact statement of being left upset, losing her trust in people and not feeling safe in her workplace. In spring 2009 you raped the victim in count six. She was 21, you were 33. She was a huge fan of yours which you were happy to exploit. She had willing consensual sexual activity with you after your show. You took her phone number and if anyone still needs any demonstration of your contempt for your casual sexual partners, you stored her number under T for Tart. Count seven shows yet again your staggering arrogance and it shows how your entourage indulged your dreadful behaviour. Whatever women wear, wherever they go, indeed whatever they drink, they retain the right to say no and to demand justice from the criminal courts when sexual predators like you, Russell Brand, act without their consent. I pause to pay tribute to the determination and bravery of all the women whose evidence I have been recounting. I do not increase your punishment because of it, but all those women had to face being confronted and being told they'd lied or twisted the truth and or they'd agreed to to your sexual demands. That was all done because of you on your instructions.