Russell Brand cops say ‘a number of folks’ have come ahead since rape trial

The Metropolitan Police have said more people have come in regards to the investigation into Russell Brand as the disgraced star was jailed for over a decade for rape and sexual assault

The Metropolitan Police have issued an update following disgraced star Russell Brand being jailed. The force has revealed that since the trial, more people have come forward to them in regards to the investigation.

Brand was sentenced to 10 and a half years for raping one of his fans and sexually assaulting three other women during his showbiz career.

The 51-year-old former stand-up comic was found guilty at Southwark Crown Court of raping a woman and sexually assaulting female TV and radio workers.

Now the Met Police have said said they have been contacted by “several people” about possible criminal allegations against Brand.

Speaking to Sky News, a spokesman for the Met said: “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.”

The comments come just a week after the force said two further rape allegations against Brand are already being investigated.

A four-week trial heard how Brand preyed on women that he encountered on his way to becoming one of Britain’s best-known comedians, a lauded TV and radio host, and a Hollywood actor who was briefly married to singer Katy Perry..

Brand was convicted by the jury of raping a 21-year-old fan in 2009, after meeting her following one of his stand-up shows at the Hammersmith Apollo.

The woman told jurors she was a huge Brand fan and had willingly engaged in a threesome with him backstage despite having a boyfriend at the time.

She agreed to go to Brand’s Hampstead home for sex a few days later, but a consensual encounter turned into rape when the comedian suddenly forced the woman into anal sex.

Another woman told the court how her breasts were groped by Brand in the Nordic bar in Soho, just seconds after she had been introduced to him at a 2004 party. She recalled Brand’s “weird” grin as he carried out the sexual assault.

In 2005, Brand kissed and groped a third woman during a visit to the Capital Radio studios in London, pouncing on her as she walked out of a room.

Brand was also convicted of putting his head into the groin of a female Channel 4 worker, after she had been forced to give him a massage in 2009.

Brand denied the all the charges and claimed to have only ever had consensual sex during a “promiscuous” life, which he insisted had been packed with “idiocy” but never illegal.