{"id":2209047,"date":"2026-10-20T10:55:40","date_gmt":"2026-10-20T07:55:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/?p=2209047"},"modified":"2026-10-20T10:55:40","modified_gmt":"2026-10-20T07:55:40","slug":"woman-says-she-couldnt-speak-or-breathe-during-alleged-rape-by-russell-brand","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/?p=2209047","title":{"rendered":"Woman says she ‘couldn’t speak or breathe’ during alleged rape by Russell Brand"},"content":{"rendered":"

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    A woman who says Russell Brand raped her at his home in London told police she “couldn’t speak or breathe” during the alleged attack, a jury has heard.<\/b><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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    The 51-year-old entertainer is accused of raping the woman in 2009 after meeting her at London’s Hammersmith Apollo, where he had been performing as a stand-up comedian.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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    Brand faces seven charges in the trial in total – 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 all the charges.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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    In video evidence of her speaking to a police officer, the woman said she performed a sex act on Brand at the London theatre after being invited for drinks following the show.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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    She said she gave him her phone number, explaining she was “a massive Russell Brand fan” and a “massive comedy fan” at the time.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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    After that night, she said Brand messaged her and she went to his house in Hampstead knowing they would have sex.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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    But she said a consensual encounter became rape when Brand started having anal sex with her and ignored her pleas for him to stop.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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    She said when she arrived at his home, Brand told her she needed to have a shower “because my hair smelled funny”. He then asked her to brush her teeth.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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    “I was trying to make a joke of what he was making me do”, she said. “All of those things made me feel, ‘I don’t like this’.”<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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    The woman said a short while after getting on his bed, she was turned over. It was then she said she was allegedly raped.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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    She told police: “From the very moment it happened, I felt I had willingly gone there and from what his reputation was, what did I expect?”<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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    She said Brand “hurt me and harmed me, and when I asked him to stop, he didn’t”. She added: “The horror in anyone that I told was not enough to make me believe I didn’t deserve it.”<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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    The woman said she told friends and family afterwards, and went through sexual health tests – believing that she had contracted a disease from Brand.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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    Earlier on Tuesday, another woman who claims Brand sexually assaulted her described the alleged attack as “frenzied” and “violent”.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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    That complainant alleges Brand assaulted her at the Choice FM radio studios in central London in the mid-2000s.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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    She said she came out of a small room in the building to find Brand outside.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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    “He said ‘aye aye’,” she told the jury. “He grabbed me by my face, started to kiss me, and when he was kissing me he started pushing me – his body against me.”<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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    The woman continued: “He was kissing me, it was very frenzied. There was no time for me to even understand what was going on.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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    “He was running his hands over my body and I had my back against the wall at that point.”<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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    From behind a blue screen, the woman described the kiss as “sloppy” and “very, very rough”, when asked by the prosecution barrister about the alleged attack.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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    “His hands at the same time were all over me,” she said. “He touched my bum, my breasts, his body was pressed up against me.”<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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    The woman said she pushed him off and swore at him.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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    She said there were several people with him who she claims didn’t say anything about what happened after the alleged assault.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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    The woman – now in her 50s – said she had never met Brand before and that she believed he’d been in the building because he was on Channel 4 show Big Brother’s Big Mouth.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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    She told the jury: “His whole body was pressed against me – the kisses were hard and sloppy and going down my neck. <\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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    “His hands were moving so much – the reason I used the word frenzied was because it was violent. He just wasn’t stopping.”<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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    She said she felt “dirty” after the encounter and “never told anybody”, adding: “I felt shocked and stunned, shaken.”<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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    When questioned by Brand’s barrister on why none of the people who may have seen what happened raised concerns, the woman said: “It was not the present-day environment.”<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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    “On the day it happened – and I ask myself this question – why I didn’t share it,” she said. “It wasn’t the culture where something happened to you and you tell people.”<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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    Asked by the defence barrister why she did not go to the police, the woman said: “I would have thought about a few things. Who would have believed me?<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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    “I could lose my job and I had a mortgage to pay,” she said, adding that she “buried it for so long”.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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    The woman said she came forward with the allegation after watching a documentary on television about the TV star and his alleged behaviour.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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    Another complainant also gave evidence to the jury – again from behind a blue screen to the right side of the court.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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    The woman, who worked with Brand on a Channel 4 project in 2009, said members of the defendant’s team asked her for a massage on his behalf while they were in the same space.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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    She said after replying no, Brand “came into the room and lay his head into my lap, into my groin area”.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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    When asked by the prosecution counsel where exactly his mouth and nose were, the woman replied “in my vaginal area”.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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    The woman who worked for channel 4 at the time – said she was “so repulsed at the situation”. She described him as “bony”.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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    She said she reported the alleged incident to her line manager at the time who then reported it further up the chain.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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    Brand stared straight ahead as the complainants gave evidence – barely changing his posture. His hands sometimes resting on his lap. His wife Laura Brand remained sitting to his right side outside the dock – seeming to listen attentively to what the women were saying from the witness box.<\/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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