London, UK – British comedian Russell Brand, who became a household name in the 2000s as a sex-obsessed provocateur, will face sentencing on Monday after being convicted of rape and several counts of sexual assault.
Brand’s conviction last week marked the final blow in a scandal-hit showbiz career that saw Brand embody the anything-goes culture of 2000s British TV and radio.
On Monday, he will be sentenced at London’s Southwark Crown Court, where he was told by the judge last week that he faces a “significant custodial term” after being found guilty of one rape and three sexual assaults against four women, committed between 2004 and 2009.
The maximum sentence in the UK for rape is life imprisonment.
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Brand was cleared of two other alleged rapes and one count of attempted indecent assault. Following his conviction last week, he was remanded in custody and spent the weekend in a cell.
He is facing further investigations after London’s Metropolitan Police said it was probing rape allegations by two more women. Pointing to the upcoming investigations, Met police chief Mark Rowley told the BBC that he “wouldn’t be surprised if many more came forward.”
During the high-profile trial, Brand admitted he had been “extremely promiscuous” and had used his fame to “facilitate sexual access,” but denied all charges of rape and sexual assault.
He was accompanied to court most days by his wife Laura Gallacher, with whom he has three children.
Calling him a “wonderful father to our children,” Gallacher told the jury that when they first dated in 2006: “It was clear it was difficult for him to be monogamous.”
She said she was “very aware” of Brand’s promiscuity, as “you could read about it regularly in the papers.”
