Russell Brand is beginning his prison sentence at HMP Wandsworth, and one former inmate who was recently released reportedly said there’s one issue that will really effect him
Disgraced comedian Russell Brand is just over a week into a 10 and a half year prison sentence. According to one former inmate who has recently been released from HMP Wandsworth, where Brand is currently housed, Brand will “hate it” – and he revealed what Brand’s biggest problem is likely to be.
Brand was convicted of one count of rape and three counts of sexual assault at Southwark Crown Court earlier this month. It is unclear which prison will be his ultimate destination, but for now he is at Wandsworth, a category B jail in south London.
A convicted robber, who was reportedly released from the prison on Wednesday (November 11) after serving half of a six-year sentence, thinks the celebrity will hate his time in the jail. And there’s one surprising reason why he will find his stretch particularly difficult.
He told the Daily Mail: “It’s the solid boredom more than anything. And the other prisoners won’t give a damn that he was famous. They’ve got enough of their own worries and troubles to be impressed by that. He will have his own TV and stuff. But he will feel so lonely.”
It is believed that Brand will eventually be moved to a prison that specialises in housing sex offenders. This could be HMP Littlehey in Cambridgeshire or HMP Whatton in Nottinghamshire. He could even end up at HMP Wakefield, nicknamed ‘Monster Mansion’ due to the long list of horrendous inmates who have passed through the jail.
Wakefield is currently home to notorious lags like Jamie Varley, Roy Whiting and Jeremy Bamber, while paedo Lostprophets singer Ian Watkins was murdered there last year.
Tom Wheatley, who was governor at the jail from 2018 to 2024, said the facility held a range of people with different outlooks. As they are all living in one place, the environment is “inherently stressful”.
For the moment, Brand remains in Wandsworth, and he reportedly went pale and thought he was going to be sick when he saw the state of his cell.
He has reportedly been branded a “nonce” by fellow inmates while he was placed in the Care and Separation Unit, where high-risk inmates are segregated for their own safety. A source told the BBC he has since been moved to the main wing.
It is probably a far cry from the surroundings the millionaire former entertainer is used. The 51-year-old convicted sex offender, who has three young children with his wife, Laura Brand, had been living in a property worth around £2million before a trial.
Now Brand’s wife has a decision to make about whether they will return to the UK while he is serving his sentence. It has been suggested she is considering returning permanently to their property in Henley-on-Thames, Oxfordshire.
Since his conviction and sentencing, The Times reported fresh accusations of sexual misconduct and predatory behaviour by a further six money. Brand has denied all non-consensual sexual activity.
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