The guy behind him is a copy. At least give him 5 years too, just to make sure shit doesn’t repeat itself.
Honestly he should be in jail for 100 years, 10 years are just rookie numbers
Now he will get to enjoy a nice decade of interruption free Bible study time! This is actually a huge win for him.
Thy rod and thy staff, they comfort me.
I will never understand how one can have so much money and success just to throw it all away for something so stupid and vile.
He gets the Bill Cosby lifetime achievement award.
How bloody infuriating is it that I’m STILL arguing with people who are confidently saying that he was stitched up! They aren’t the brightest but still they seem to ignore his financial might thrown into his legal defences. What do those morons think they know that the court is missing?
Defending random celebrities is always weird to me. Can you believe that he would do that? Well yes, i’m not in a parasocial relationship with them.
Glad he’s doing Timey Wime.
Take a look at Stewart Lee’s standup routine bit on Russell Brand from years ago, it’s hilarious!
The conservative sub was malding over this.
Like, was he even known for his politics? I knew him as a weird actor whose primary vehicle for comedy was just being a weird oddball. They really will just defend any sex criminal?
He was an outspoken Leftist campaigner in the early 2010s. Then when more and more stories started getting spread about his rapey antics, nobody on the Left would talk to him any more and he had to go find some new friends.
yea he is, at least the start of covid he pivoted hard, i kept seeing him on my feed unintentionally, and when not logging in youtube during that time. he probably suspected this was going to happen eventually.
He started being very US politics on his podcast for a bit and then he switched over to Christianity and conservative grift.
am I imagining it or did he do a baptism with jd vance?
I’m fairly sure he was being groomed to be peter thiel’s new pope
I guess I just missed all that. I would see a random clip from him on Fox here and there but didn’t realize he was “known” for politics
I saw a Facebook story about his convictions and there were so many people in the comments saying he is just being silenced for his views and he’s an innocent man being done wrong by attention seekers.
Facebook is such a bin fire sometimes…
Only sometimes??
Do Jared Leto next!
Wait. Are they different people?! WTF?
Guess he didn’t fake Christian hard enough
He picked the wrong religion.
No, you don’t get it.
He’s gonna find that passage in Isaiah any moment now!
he took too long to convert, shouldve done it before covid, then he has a base where he can gauge reactions from.
Jeez. I was about to say the opposite, that he fits the conservative xtian stereotype pretty well. But both statements look correct to me.
To be fair, conservatives are the best fakers of Christianity around.
I don’t remember very well right now but I think when I used to watch him in conversations from like 15 years ago I’m pretty sure he was doing the enlightened atheist stuff. At the very least I’m almost certain his philosophy ramblings never mentioned god, it would’ve turned me off him even way back then.
He was!!! Then the whole space turned against because of the rape stuff came out. Turns out people who think about morality don’t wanna follow a rapist.
I’m waiting for the picture of him without sunglasses and his hair shaved off.
If you’re feeling upset about the length of the sentence, think about where you were ten years ago and you’ll quickly realize that ten years go by very slowly. That’s a huge chunk of life when you really think about it. It’s only the number itself that looks small
There’s something to say about the fact he will be only 61 when he gets out, though. It does give one anxiety, doesn’t it? It’s not like he’ll be old and frail
Some people have a warped view of punishment and will always demand more punishment. Especially for lighter offenses, they think people should go to prison for decades, it’s insane. They’d have people quartered again if they could have their way
I’ve seen plenty of folks argue for the death penalty for rapists. Blows my mind a bit, speaking as a survivor. I’m also against the death penalty in general, though, and that’s unfortunately not the most popular opinion. Gallup puts it at 49% in support for people convicted of murder as of this year, and Pew Research has it at a whopping 66%.
Wait’ll you get older. I still think of covid like it ended last year.
The last 10 years feel simultaneously like an eternity and like a blink of an eye…
Still… seven woman… And probably more out there… And ONLY 10 years?
Still… seven woman…
*women. So far. Apparently more are coming forward, maybe his sentence will increase.
Yeah sorry, as a non native speaker these sorts of things trip me up sometimes. :-). Very dependent on auto correct…
This punishment is for one count of rape and three of sexual assault. There were two other rape charges he was cleared of. I assume he would have gotten the maximum sentence otherwise.
That’s not really how sentencing works. He’d have been sentenced for three counts, but wouldn’t get the maximum for each unless they were extreme, talking busting into houses, beatings, abductions, ultra violence etc.
The sentencing guidelines for the category of rape Brand was convicted of are 6-9yrs or 9-13yrs, depending on category.
Yes but no. 10 years should be the absolute minimum in a “singular” rape charge. But come on, to rape 7 women (that we got proof of) & only do 10 years is blasphemous.
Well that’s the thing. He wasn’t convicted of seven counts of rape. This punishment is for one count of rape and three of sexual assault. There were two other rape charges he was cleared of.
Yes but in peoples eyes the accusation is enough and they never follow up past the big headline.
Uhhh, pretty sure most people would consider one rape conviction a pretty goddamn big deal so it’s arguing semantics about the rest.
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.
“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.
he will be too old to peddle any pundits to gain back fame by then.
just imagine how many religions he can get into now
Authentic picture of Russell Brand.
- 2036 (colorized)
he shouldve went hard into islam like tate is, especially with how woman are viewed under incel muslim/fundamentalism.
It will be interesting to see how he goes.
I have found that, nowadays if media exposure gets taken away, a lot of people tend to chill out and drift more left leaning. Right leaning thinking for many tends to require constant nudging to keep people in that camp. So being isolated from that feed might do him some good. It will at least do the world some good.
I’m not saying, “take away the media and all is well” but there is a section of society that is heavily swayed by it.
a lot of people aren’t rapists either, regardless of media exposure
Being a high profile sex offender in a jail 18 months could turn out to be a life sentence
There are rumours that he already has a fan club in jail and cowers his way into the mess hall and back to his cell every day.
IIRC, he wanted it like that enough to find away to Spike his stay. Pun Buffilly intended.
He probably won’t serve all ten years, assuming good behavior
7 years then the British equivalent of parole. It’s in the article.
Not the British equivalent of parole. Just parole. And that’s not automatic.
There’s a first time for everything!
Those are maximum sentences for Category 1 though, and would be given for extreme cases.
It looks like Brand was sentenced on a Category 2 rape, which has a starting point of 10y custody.
