Russell Brand sentenced to 10 years and six months for rape and sexual assault

British actor and comedian Russell Brand has been sentenced to 10 years and six months in prison by a court in the United Kingdom after being found guilty of rape and sexual assault.

Judge Justice Bennathan handed down the sentence at Southwark Crown Court in London on Monday. On 5 November, a London jury had found the 51-year-old Brand guilty on one count of rape and three counts of sexual assault.

Brand was sentenced to 35 months in total for the three sexual assault counts, the longest of which was 18 months, with the sentences to run concurrently. He was sentenced to nine years in prison for the rape count, to be served consecutively to the sexual assault sentences, making a total of 10 years and six months.

While handing down the sentence, the judge said that although he would follow the sentencing guidelines, Brand had 'committed sexual offences against a number of women' and that reducing the sentences 'would not do justice to the overall gravity' of his criminality.

Brand had faced a total of seven charges involving six women. He pleaded not guilty to three counts of rape, three counts of sexual assault and one count of attempted indecent assault.

Six women testified against the comedian during the four-week trial. The jury found him guilty on four of the seven counts.

Brand was convicted of raping a woman he had met at one of his shows in 2009, and of sexually assaulting three women at a bar, a radio station and a TV studio between 2004 and 2009.

The court acquitted him of two further charges of rape and one count of attempted indecent assault. Brand denies all the charges and has said he never had non-consensual sex.

The UK's Metropolitan Police has said detectives began investigating Brand in 2023 after allegations against the actor were reported by multiple UK news outlets.

In April 2025, Brand was charged with one count of rape, one count of oral rape, one count of indecent assault and two counts of sexual assault, in connection with alleged incidents from around two decades ago, according to the Metropolitan Police.

After the convictions, the Metropolitan Police revealed that Brand was under investigation over two further rape allegations.

ABC News reached out to Brand's attorney for comment following last week's verdict but did not hear back. Brand was taken into custody immediately after the verdict.