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Russell Brand was pictured outside court on Friday as he arrived for the third day of his trial<\/figcaption><\/div>\n<\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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    A woman who alleges she was indecently assaulted by Russell Brand has told his trial she was left feeling “bewildered and confused”.<\/b><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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    The woman, who worked at MTV at the time, said the entertainer went from “jovial” to a “wild-eyed maniac” as he attempted, she alleged, to pull her into a toilet.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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    Brand, 51, faces seven charges in the trial – three counts of rape, three charges of sexual assault and one of indecent assault.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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    The allegations, made by six female complainants, span a 10-year period between 1999 and 2009. He denies the charges.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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    The woman gave evidence on Friday from behind a screen at Southwark Crown Court in London, on the third day of Brand’s trial.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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    She told the jury the alleged incident at MTV lasted for about 20 seconds, adding: “It was a very short exchange.”<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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    Asked how she felt after the alleged attack by Brand, the woman said: “Bewildered, confused, ‘what the hell happened there?'”<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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    She said Brand went from someone who was “affable” to a “wild-eyed maniac trying to pull me into the toilet”.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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    “I was confused that that actually just happened – anyone would be,” she said.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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    The complainant told jurors on Friday she met Brand in 2001 when she worked at MTV.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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    She said she recognised him straight away and said there was “banter” between them initially.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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    After noticing his “distinctive T-shirt” with the words “I am Spartacus”, she told Brand she “loved it” and wanted it.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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    “He said, ‘you can have it'”, the woman told the jury, to which she said she replied: “Make sure it gets a good wash first.”<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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    Brand then asked her for directions to the bathroom.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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    The woman, who was in her thirties at the time, said she offered to show him the way because she was going in the same direction.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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    Prosecutor Riel Karmy-Jones KC asked her what happened next.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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    She said his “demeanour changed” when they got to the bathroom door.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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    “He grabbed my forearm, he was leaning into the door and he was quite forceful,” she said, adding that it took her “unaware”.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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    Asked by the prosecutor what she meant by his demeanour changing, the witness said: “He grabbed me by the arm, started to pull me in.”<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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    She said Brand then said to her “come on” while still holding her forearm.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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    The woman said while Brand was trying to pull her into the bathroom, she was trying to pull herself away.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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    “I said to him, ‘What are you doing, are you mad, let me go’… and then he started to… plead almost,” she said.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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    The woman told the court she managed to “wrench” herself from Brand’s grip because of her own strength.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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    She told jurors Brand went from “jovial, affable, friendly to suddenly turning into this wild-eyed manic so I was quite confused this was happening, as anyone would be”.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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    Asked by the prosecutor why she did not report what had happened to her employer, she said: “I was scared… I thought it would be my word against his.”<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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    But she did tell two of her colleagues, she said. <\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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    Jurors heard that she reported the allegation to the police in 2023 after watching a Channel 4 documentary about Brand.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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    “I thought it was the right thing to do to come forward,” she told the court.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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    Brand’s barrister challenged the complainant on the fact that she did not report Brand for what he had allegedly done until after watching the documentary.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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    “You didn’t think there was any need to report him,” Ian Winter KC said.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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    “It would have been my word against his,” she replied. “He didn’t manage to rape me. I managed to get out of the situation.”<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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    The defence barrister said: “It was only after you saw the television programme that you think he was trying to rape you in the toilet.”<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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    The woman responded: “Why else would you drag someone into the toilet if you weren’t going to assault them.”<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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    Winter KC continued: “Twenty-two years before that, you hadn’t thought he was trying to get you in there to rape you…”<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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    The woman denied that, adding: “You don’t grab someone by the arm. You don’t grip someone and try to drag them in, that’s not consensual.”<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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    The woman was speaking after a former flatmate of Brand’s, Andrew Dobson, earlier told the jury that “sex was a huge preoccupation” for the entertainer.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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    Dobson gave evidence after another woman told the court on Thursday that Russell Brand raped her in a hotel room in Bournemouth in 1999.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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    She said she had met Brand, before he was famous, while she was attending the Labour Party conference.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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    Dobson told the court on Friday he attended the Bournemouth conference and had written music for a fringe event that Brand was part of.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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    Karmy-Jones asked Dobson how he would describe Brand’s character as he got to know him before he was famous.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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    Dobson told the court Brand was a “very vibrant character, very egotistical”.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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    “I would say lively,” he continued. “Sort of quite demanding and persuasive. I think erratic would be maybe a slightly better term.”<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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    Dobson also told the court that “sex was a huge preoccupation for him”, referring to Brand.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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    He said he recalled a couple of nights when “clearly the pursuit of getting somebody in bed would be a preoccupation” for Brand.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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    The jury heard that Dobson was staying in the same guesthouse with Brand and other cast members.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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    The morning after Brand is alleged to have raped a woman, he returned to the place where some of the cast had been staying, the jury heard.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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    Asked by the prosecutor to describe the “circumstances of how he came home”, Dobson replied: “My primary recollection is very hurried and rushed… I recall Russell coming in and suddenly an urgency we had to leave, things being really hurried”.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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    The prosecutor asked the witness: “Where did urgency come from?”<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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    Dobson replied: “I can’t recall anything specific that was said. I only remember the atmosphere and panicked, urgent. Feeling tense and confusing.”<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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    He went on to tell the jury there had been an “abrupt change of atmosphere” from what had been a “fun week” to an “abrupt change of tone”.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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    Under cross-examination by Brand’s barrister, it was put to Dobson that in his witness statement he said that Brand was one of few men he knew that women would swoon over.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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    Dobson replied: “He was certainly charismatic”.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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    Brand denies all the charges and has pleaded not guilty. <\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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    He has said that any sexual contact if it happened, would have been consensual. <\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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    The trial continues.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/article>\n

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