Good, one more rapey, creepy, rich cunt not walking the streets. Now if only the US would start doing the same things to our rich, rapey cunts. We should start with the orange molester in chief.
Good riddance m8
Not rich enough to be immune from punishment. Git gud.
All he had to do was add his name onto the Epstein files to get away with it.
What do you call a serial rapist getting ten and a half years?
A GOOD START.
Honestly 10 years feels like roughly the right amount of time, assuming it’s actually 10 years in prison and not 18 months in a celebrity daycamp.
People change a lot in prison. Even a year or two. 10 years of prison later he will be a very very very different person, and I don’t think an additional 5+ years would really make much of a difference.
I’m surprised it is that much. I know someone who went down for rape with someone under age and sexual misconduct with someone else underage and he got 6 years. Probably serve 4 years I guess, for permanently destroying two peoples’ lives. Ridiculous.
“Under English law, the maximum sentence for rape is life imprisonment, and 10 years for one count of sexual assault, according to Britain’s sentencing council.”
This guy got basically sentenced for one + half a year of the 3 assaults and not caunting the 1 rape
He got 10 more years than the epstein pedogang though.
With Brand’s history and lifestyle, 10 years night still be a life sentence.
Being a high profile sex offender in a jail 18 months could turn out to be a life sentence
just imagine how many religions he can get into now
He probably won’t serve all ten years, assuming good behavior
7 years then the British equivalent of parole. It’s in the article.
There’s a first time for everything!
And the Epstein gang sentences a sexual predator.
Crap. I have several Russell brand shirts / sportsware. Guess donation centers are going to see a real swell of this stuff.
Times like this, it’s good to know what’s important.
That’s it?
Unacceptable.
Here’s hoping he’s at least put in a real prison
What makes you think he won’t? Hes already been placed in solitary because the other inmates would eat him alive if he wasnt.
It’s a little light for the charges but hopefully he gets more when the other cases go to trial.
My got the Wikipedia section on the incidents (a life times worth of offending, and it being an open secret at the BBC that he was a known predator) was exhausting.
Luckily this was also in there too:
In the days following his charges, Brand was “indefinitely” suspended from his role as an ambassador for the Tiggywinkles Wildlife Hospital charity[239] and dropped as a celebrity spokesperson for the American Catholic meditation and prayer app Hallow.[240]
Sad to see the BBC continuing to protect predators. You’d think some hard questions would have been asked after Jimmy Savile.
Tiggywinkles
I do love the sheer percentage of British things that scream “WE ARE BRITISH” by their very name.
Isn’t it named after the Beatrix Potter character
No clue, but doesn’t invalidate my point. If anything, reinforces. lol. I do want to note that I say so lovingly. :)
I guess lots of time to write My Prissy Wizz
Rape really needs to be up there with murder. He’s a serial rapist, he shouldn’t be getting out. he’ll just go back to abusing when he’s out.
edit for the people attacking me on this:
longer sentencing on rape and sexual abuse, less access to parole and bail for rapists and sexual abusers has never been shown to increase the rate of murder, murdering a rape victim doesn’t help a rapist avoid detection, 90% of rapists target people they know well and can be easily linked to by police, a dead body is a much bigger problem than a rape accusation. and again, legislation changing sentencing has taken place in many places where I live in California this has happened repeatedly, once in the 80’s and once more recently at the least, and neither instance has led to an increase in murder rates, or the pattern of behavior of rapists or sexual abusers changing to include murder. they still target people they know and can gain power or authority over and abuse them and pressure them to be silent, not murder them. this theory that longer sentencing will make all rape become murder doesn’t make sense and hasn’t happened when sentences increased in the past
Making rape punishment equal to that for murder makes killing rape victims a most logical choice for any rapist. Justice system must be proportional and not based on emotions alone to be effective.
I get the theory, but it doesn’t hold up to scrutiny, it’s never been positivity shown that legislation effects criminal behavior to that extent, most criminals think ‘‘I’ll never get caught’’ not ‘‘I can stomach the punishment’’
edit for all the down votes: longer sentences and less access to parole and bail for rapists and sexual abusers has happened, this has happened in CA where I live several times in fact, and murder rates have not gone up to meet the rate of rape or sexual abuse. this isn’t a thing that’s ever happened, and longer sentencing has never been shown to increase the rate of violent crimes, that’s not how rapists have been shown to behave or think. also deciding I’m being emotional by suggesting rape needs to be treated like murder in sentencing is foolish, I clearly said the reason is that rapists shouldn’t be allowed to reenter society, as they’ll continue to be rapists, and seek victims.
most criminals think ‘‘I’ll never get caught’’
And dead lips don’t speak
most rapist target victims they know and can be connected to, family members, social relationships, romantic relationships, and work relationships, it’s it MUCH harder to get away with murdering someone you know, than abusing them. killing them would almost certainly be attributed to the person they know that was motivated to harm them. if Brand killed any of his victims he targeted through his work connections, he would have been caught very very quickly. he’s avoided jail for such a long time because abuse and rape carry enough stigma and trauma and the pressure of not being the person who’s causing problem in your profession when you aren’t in a position of power makes it hard for victims to report and pursue legal charges. killing these women wouldn’t have solved any problem. over 90% of rape and sexual abuse is from someone that woman knows well. this is the tactic of rapist and abusers, to get into someone’s life, and abuse them with the pressure of being their boss or romantic partner, or otherwise connected to them in a way that stops them from reporting that adds more stigma or trauma to stop them from talking, killing them might stop them from talking, but it goes from an unreported crime to a crime that will likely make headlines and draw significant attention and that 90% are known to the victim also means police won’t have a hard time linking the victim to the murderer, so your suggestion that LONGER JAIL TIME for rapists will lead to every rapist becoming a murder, doesn’t make sense. the pattern of abuse, and the outcomes of said abuse don’t line up at all with murder being a logical solution to avoiding longer jail times.
We need faster processing of these cases and more sentences being delivered. Increasing the severity of punishment will lead to the opposite.
Only convicted of one so far, plus assaults, so not yet officially a serial, so wait & see.
There are more accusations, there will be future charges
I suspect that will happen, but it’s crazy for the previous comment to grumble he wasn’t sentenced as a serial when he’s not yet convicted of more than one.
I don’t know if this article says but others have noted he has other charges pending, and the judge stated after the victim impact statements that he clearly has a pattern of sexual abuse, I’m also not swayed at all by the difference in conviction of rape vs how many times he actually raped in real life, often in these and also serial murder cases, the prosecution will focus on one or two instances that are easier to convict rather than every instance it reportedly happened, I don’t agree with this commonality of the legal system, it is what they do, unfortunately, and it allows people to minimize crimes in a lot of cases because someone was only technically convicted once. he’s an abuser with many victims, he’s rape more than one woman for certain, I don’t care how the prosecution decides to arrange the charges.
I wasn’t following closely, but this is a positive thing. The sentencing is light. Now do more celebs!
I like that the wikipedia infobox has the criminal info already!
