Russell Brand is ‘quizzed by Met Police over historic intercourse offences’

Russell Brand was this week questioned by Met Police detectives over allegations of historic intercourse offences.

Scotland Yard stated {that a} man in his 40s, believed to be Brand, was quizzed over three ‘non-recent’ sexual offences at a south London police station on Thursday.

Brand, 48, was interviewed below warning by Met Police officers and the drive will proceed to research, The Sunday Times first reported. 

The Met had urged potential victims to return ahead after the maverick comedian confronted accusations of sexual assault and rape from 4 girls which had been revealed in an investigation by the identical newspaper and Channel 4 Dispatches programme.

In September, Scotland Yard stated it was probing a number of allegations involving sexual offences after alleged victims from London and different components of the UK contacted police.

A Met Police spokesman confirmed to MailOnline at present: ‘A person in his forties attended a police station in south London on Thursday, 16 November 2023. He was interviewed below warning by detectives in relation to 3 non-recent sexual offences. Enquiries proceed.’ 

On Wednesday, 24 hours previous to Brand being quizzed by cops, the BBC stated two extra complaints which had been ‘not of a severe sexual nature’ had been introduced in opposition to the comedian and actor after the broadcaster launched a overview into his behaviour. 

This was along with three different complaints made to the BBC earlier than he was accused of rape and sexual assault.

Brand has denied allegations of rape and sexual assault and claimed his relationships had been ‘at all times consensual’.

The allegations that the Met is questioning Brand over are understood to be totally different to these made by 4 girls in September.

The comic was accused of abusive and predatory behaviour, together with one rape, sexual assault and emotional abuse, between 2006 and 2013 on the top of his fame. 

The first allegations included one girl alleging that Brand raped her in opposition to the wall of his Los Angeles house with out a condom in 2013. She was handled at a rape disaster on the identical day, based on medical data seen by The Times.

Another girl alleged he sexually assaulted her when she was 16-years-old and nonetheless at college within the UK.

A 3rd claimed that Brand sexually assaulted her whereas she labored with him in LA. She alleged she repeatedly instructed him to get off her and when he lastly did he ‘flipped’.

The fourth claimed she was sexually assaulted by Brand within the UK and accused him of being bodily and emotionally abusive in direction of her. 

A slew of additional claims then emerged within the weeks, together with a girl who contacted the Met to allege she had been sexually assaulted in Soho, London, in 2003.

Detective Superintendent Andy Furphy, who’s main the inquiry, later stated: ‘We proceed to encourage anybody who believes they could have been a sufferer of a sexual offence, regardless of how way back it was, to contact us.’

He added: ‘We perceive it might really feel like a tough step to take, and I need to reassure that we have now a crew of specialist officers out there to advise and assist.’

Officers from a police unit arrange after the Jimmy Savile scandal had been working with Scotland Yard on the ‘non-recent’ allegations made in opposition to Brand.

Earlier this month, Brand was accused of sexually assaulting an actress on the set of ‘Arthur’ in 2010 – whereas he was engaged to Katy Perry – in a lawsuit filed in New York, marking the primary such accusation levelled in courtroom.

He was pictured final week for the primary time since he was publicly accused of rape and sexual assault by a number of girl.

He was seen driving to the pub he owns in Oxfordshire on Thursday in his £90,000 Land Rover Defender to talk to employees about ongoing renovations on the property. 

Last month it was revealed Brand was pressured to take down fencing round his village pub after he put it up in breach of planning rules the day after he was accused of abusive and predatory behaviour. 

Brand’s outing got here simply days earlier than the BBC revealed a complete of 5 complaints had been launched in opposition to the comic.

One of the primary three complaints pertains to an allegation of misconduct that was first reported in 2019 relating to an incident that passed off on BBC premises in Los Angeles in 2008.

The closing two complaints had been made between 2006 and 2008, when Brand was employed on the company as a radio presenter and had been raised once more after he left.

Ahead of the primary accusations being made in opposition to Brand, he vehemently denied ‘very severe prison allegations’. 

He stated in a video: ‘Now throughout that point of promiscuity the relationships I had had been completely at all times consensual. I used to be at all times clear about that then, nearly too clear, and I’m being clear about it now as nicely.

‘To see that transparency metastasised into one thing prison, that I completely deny, makes me query: is there one other agenda at play?’

Brand stated the ‘very severe allegations’ got here amid ‘a litany of astonishing, reasonably baroque assaults’.

MailOnline has contacted Russell Brand’s representatives for remark.