Sitdown Sunday: The downfall of Russell Brand
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Court artist sketch by Elizabeth Cook of Judge Bennathan looking on as Russell Brand appears at Southwark Crown Court, London. Alamy Stock Photo Alamy Stock Photo
On Thursday at Southwark Crown Court, a jury found Russell Brand guilty of one count of rape and three counts of sexual assault. This article from The Guardian examines the downfall of Brand.
( The Guardian , approx. 13 mins reading time)
“In the early 1990s, when he was a student at the Italia Conti theatre school, a teenage Russell Brand became so fixated on a classmate that he followed her for 200 miles, trailing her through the streets of London before sneaking, ticketless, on to her train to Wigan.”
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