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He has pleaded not guilty to all the charges.\n \n Prosecutor Riel Karmy-Jones began the trial with her opening statement, telling the court the six alleged victims, all women, \u201cdid not know each other then and do not know each other now\u201d and \u201ccame forward independently of each other\u201d.\n \n Karmy-Jones said the allegations \u201cpunctuate\u201d 10 years of Brand\u2019s life when \u201chis career was beginning to flourish\u201d.\n \n The first alleged victim is a woman Brand allegedly raped in a hotel room during a Labour party conference in Bournemouth in 1999. The court heard the complainant, who was in her 20s at the time, said when she came out of the bathroom at her hotel room, Brand was topless and \u201cprancing around the room \u2013 a bit like an ostrich, doing silly walks like Basil Fawlty\u201d.\n \n The second alleged victim is a woman who worked at MTV at the time of the alleged indecent assault incident in 2001. Jurors were told Brand had allegedly tried to force her into a toilet and that she \u201cresisted by struggling and pulling back\u201d. The woman was felt \u201cbewildered and shocked\u201d, Karmy-Jones said.\n \n The third alleged victim is a woman who was also allegedly forced into a toilet by Brand during an incident at a bar in Soho in 2004. The court heard Brand \u201cgrabbed her arm and held her quite strongly and pulled her into the lavatory\u201d where he allegedly orally raped her.\n \n The fourth alleged victim is a woman who was in her 20s and working at a radio station in 2004 or 2005 when Brand allegedly sexually assaulted her. Karmy-Jones said Brand \u201cinstantly grabbed her by the face with both hands\u201d and \u201cpushed her up against a wall, where he kissed her \u2018sloppily and aggressively\u2019\u201d. The prosecutor added: \u201cDuring this assault he also grabbed her body, at her breasts, sides and buttocks aggressively.\u201d\nRussell Brand at Southwark crown court in London for the opening day of his trial. Photograph: Neil Hall/EPAKey eventsnowProsecution's first witness takes the stand2h agoBrand 'apologised for treating woman like an animal,' court hears2h agoAlleged rape victim 'begged' for Brand to stop, court hears2h agoWhat the court has heard so far3h agoAlleged victim said Brand 'grabbed her by the face with both hands' during assault, court hears3h agoBrand told alleged victim 'don't be a spoilsport', prosecutor says3h agoBrand was 'prancing around' like Basil Fawlty before alleged rape in hotel room, court hears4h agoBrand was 'ruthless, calculated and manipulative', court hears4h agoProsecution outlines charges against Russell Brand as trial begins5h agoBrand arrives at court5h agoRussell Brand rape and sexual assault trial beginsProsecution's first witness takes the standThe court is now back in session, with the prosecution to call its first witness, Mark Pinheiro.Pinheiro is a former friend of Russell Brand.Concluding the prosecution\u2019s opening statement, Karmy-Jones said:\n double quotation markSix women, separate women with different allegations, they don\u2019t know each other and when you hear them I have no doubt you will find their evidence compelling.\u201d\nThe court has now adjourned for a break until 2pm.The prosecution outlined the allegations made by the final woman in the case, who said she met Brand while working on a project for Channel 4 in 2009.The court heard Brand had demanded a massage, walked up to a chair the alleged victim was sitting on and placed his head directly into her groin area. Karmy-Jones told jurors that Brand had said \u201ccome on then, do it\u201d, leaving the woman feeling \u201cstartled and incredibly uncomfortable\u201d.She said the alleged victim \u201cwas given no time to react \u2013 she \u2018froze\u2019\u201d.Brand 'apologised for treating woman like an animal,' court hearsBrand allegedly sent a text message to the woman at a later date, to which she replied: \u201cWhy are you even messaging me?\u201d, the jury was told.Karmy-Jones said he responded: \u201cBecause you\u2019re dirty, and I wanna push you further.\u201dThe prosecutor continued:\n double quotation markShe replied: \u2018I think you pushed me far enough \u2013 you treated me like an animal.\u2019\n His response by text was immediate \u2013 he simply said: \u2018I\u2019m sorry.\u2019\n She didn\u2019t hear from or see him again.\u201d\nAlleged rape victim 'begged' for Brand to stop, court hearsContinuing with the fifth alleged victim, Karmy-Jones told the court that the woman gave her number to Brand and he texted her later that week.She was collected by a driver and taken to Brand\u2019s address, where she said they had consensual sex, the court heard.Brand then turned her over and raped her anally, Karmy-Jones said.She told jurors: \u201cShe asked him to stop, at first quietly and then louder, a number of times, begging. He did not.\u201dKarmy-Jones said Brand had taken off his condom from the earlier intercourse, adding that \u201cthe whole thing did not last that long\u201d and that he told her afterwards to \u201cclean up the mess you have made\u201d.The alleged victim \u201cblamed herself\u201d and \u201chated herself for what had happened\u201d, jurors were told.Karmy-Jones is now taking the jury through the next allegation, involving a woman who met Brand after seeing his show at the Hammersmith Apollo in London in 2009.The alleged victim said she remembered Brand telling the audience at the end of his show: \u201cIf you see me out in the foyer and you think \u2018I really fancy him and would like to have sex with him, but I can\u2019t because it is Russell Brand\u2019, you probably can have sex with me. My age range is from 16 to death.\u201dThe woman, who attended the show with a friend, said Brand pointed at them and they were invited backstage for drinks, the court heard.Karmy-Jones outlined what the prosecution says happened at the bar:\n double quotation markOn the way she bumped into Mr Brand. He stopped, he looked at her. They had a very brief exchange and then he just kissed her, there and then, on the lips in the middle of the bar.\u201d\nThe prosecutor said the woman felt \u201cstar struck\u201d and agreed to perform a sex act on Brand, which the court was told was consensual.Karmy-Jones said the complainant was in a relationship at the time and felt \u201cregret\u201d.What the court has heard so far\n \n Russell Brand is in court facing three counts of rape, three counts of sexual assault and one count of indecent assault, in allegations dating between 1999 and 2009. He has pleaded not guilty to all the charges.\n \n Prosecutor Riel Karmy-Jones began the trial with her opening statement, telling the court the six alleged victims, all women, \u201cdid not know each other then and do not know each other now\u201d and \u201ccame forward independently of each other\u201d.\n \n Karmy-Jones said the allegations \u201cpunctuate\u201d 10 years of Brand\u2019s life when \u201chis career was beginning to flourish\u201d.\n \n The first alleged victim is a woman Brand allegedly raped in a hotel room during a Labour party conference in Bournemouth in 1999. The court heard the complainant, who was in her 20s at the time, said when she came out of the bathroom at her hotel room, Brand was topless and \u201cprancing around the room \u2013 a bit like an ostrich, doing silly walks like Basil Fawlty\u201d.\n \n The second alleged victim is a woman who worked at MTV at the time of the alleged indecent assault incident in 2001. Jurors were told Brand had allegedly tried to force her into a toilet and that she \u201cresisted by struggling and pulling back\u201d. The woman was felt \u201cbewildered and shocked\u201d, Karmy-Jones said.\n \n The third alleged victim is a woman who was also allegedly forced into a toilet by Brand during an incident at a bar in Soho in 2004. The court heard Brand \u201cgrabbed her arm and held her quite strongly and pulled her into the lavatory\u201d where he allegedly orally raped her.\n \n The fourth alleged victim is a woman who was in her 20s and working at a radio station in 2004 or 2005 when Brand allegedly sexually assaulted her. Karmy-Jones said Brand \u201cinstantly grabbed her by the face with both hands\u201d and \u201cpushed her up against a wall, where he kissed her \u2018sloppily and aggressively\u2019\u201d. The prosecutor added: \u201cDuring this assault he also grabbed her body, at her breasts, sides and buttocks aggressively.\u201d\nRussell Brand at Southwark crown court in London for the opening day of his trial. Photograph: Neil Hall/EPAAlleged victim said Brand 'grabbed her by the face with both hands' during assault, court hearsThe court is told about the fourth complainant, a woman who was in her 20s and working at a radio station in 2004 or 2005 when Brand allegedly sexually assaulted her.After she had left a room while at work, Brand \u201cinstantly grabbed her by the face with both hands\u201d and \u201cpushed her up against a wall, where he kissed her \u2018sloppily and aggressively\u2019\u201d, Karmy-Jones told jurors.She continued:\n double quotation markDuring this assault he also grabbed her body, at her breasts, sides and buttocks aggressively.\n She tried to push him off, but he was too strong \u2026 it was rough, fast and frenzied.\u201d\nKarmy-Jones added:\n double quotation markWhile this was happening, she looked to the woman that he was with, hoping she would intervene but neither the men or the woman did anything.\n She finally managed to push him away, saying words to him to the effect of \u2018fuck off\u2019.\n Mr Brand stumbled backwards at that final push and just sniggered \u2013 like it was a joke.\u201d\nBrand told alleged victim 'don't be a spoilsport', prosecutor saysTaking jurors through the third allegation, Karmy-Jones said Brand pulled another woman into a toilet during an incident at a bar in Soho in 2004.The third complainant was \u201cnot so lucky as to be able to pull away\u201d, the prosecutor said.The court heard Brand \u201cgrabbed her arm and held her quite strongly and pulled her into the lavatory\u201d where he allegedly orally raped her.Karmy-Jones told jurors that the woman said: \u201cWhat are you doing? I don\u2019t want to do this,\u201d to which Brand replied: \u201c\u2018Oh come on, don\u2019t be a spoilsport. You want to,\u2019 or something along those lines.\u201dThe prosecution outlined the second allegation against Brand, involving a woman who worked at MTV at the time of the alleged incident in 2001.The court heard that the woman offered to show Brand where the toilets were, when he allegedly told her, \u201cCome in, go on, come in,\u201d and \u201cgrabbed her hard by her forearm\u201d.Karmy-Jones told jurors the alleged victim \u201cresisted by struggling and pulling back\u201d.\n double quotation markShe continued to resist saying, \u2018I\u2019m not coming in there, don\u2019t be silly. Are you mad? Get off,\u2019 and she managed to pull herself away, and to release his grasp.\n At that point he gave up and went into the toilet, and she left the area.\u201d\nThe woman felt \u201cbewildered and shocked\u201d by the alleged assault, jurors were told.Brand was 'prancing around' like Basil Fawlty before alleged rape in hotel room, court hearsContinuing with the first alleged victim, Karmy-Jones said the woman met Brand at a fringe event at the Labour party conference where he was performing, and that they had engaged in a conversation that later continued in a hotel room.The complainant, who was in her 20s at the time, said when she came out of the bathroom at her hotel room, Brand was topless, the court heard.Karmy-Jones went on:\n double quotation markAs she came out of the bathroom he was prancing around the room \u2013 a bit like an ostrich, doing silly walks like Basil Fawlty, she said.\n She was taken aback, she was shocked, she didn\u2019t really know what to do \u2013 and in her words she froze.\n She asked him why he had taken his clothes off, and he said something along the lines of \u2018It\u2019s OK, it\u2019s just how I am, don\u2019t worry \u2026 I\u2019m mostly naked at home.\u2019\u201d\nThe court heard how Brand allegedly raped the woman, who said she was \u201cdrifting out of her head\u201d during the alleged attack, and that he later \u201cbehaved as if nothing had happened\u201d.Karmy-Jones said the alleged victim was \u201cleft in shock\u201d, \u201ccrying\u201d and feeling \u201cashamed\u201d, \u201cdirty\u201d and \u201cstupid\u201d.She added: \u201cThroughout, she felt it was her fault. She almost chastised herself for inviting him back to her room.\u201dKarmy-Jones turned to the first allegation against Brand, in which he is alleged to have raped a woman in a hotel room during a Labour party conference in Bournemouth in 1999.She told the court a witness named Mark Pinheiro said he recalled that Brand was \u201cdesperate\u201d to have sex before they left the conference.\n double quotation markAs you will hear, the defendant did achieve his objective.\n He found a victim, engaged with her, told her \u2018exactly what she needed to hear\u2019, and then manipulated the situation so as to have sex with her.\u201d\nThe court heard Brand had burst into a flat the morning after the alleged rape in Bournemouth and told the group he was with to \u201cpack up their stuff\u201d and that they \u201chad to leave town immediately\u201d. Karmy-Jones said:\n double quotation markOnce in the car, the defendant behaved oddly, shrinking down in the back seat to hide his head beneath the window.\n When pressed about where he had been the night before, and why they had to leave so abruptly, he said he had forgotten he had an audition.\u201d\nBrand would later admit to Pinheiro that it was not an audition but that he had had sex with a woman in Bournemouth the night before their hasty departure, telling him that things \u201cmight have got a little out of hand\u201d, Karmy-Jones told jurors.Court artist sketch from Monday of prosecutor Riel Karmy-Jones speaking as Russell Brand appears in the dock. Photograph: Elizabeth Cook/PAThe prosecution cited remarks made by Brand\u2019s friends during the early years of his career, including one who described the comedian as someone who \u201cwas rampant in his desire to have sex\u201d.Another friend, speaking about Brand before he found fame, described him as \u201cvery impulsive. His impulsivity led him to be very single-minded, and women and sex were a goal and an obsession,\u201d Karmy-Jones told the court.She told jurors that these comments would provide an insight into what Brand was like in his former years.She said: \u201cThis is important because what you must bear in mind in this case is that, although you\u2019re sat as jurors in Southwark crown court on October 14 2026 listening to my opening address, you will be considering offences that took place between around 27 and 17 years ago, when the defendant was aged roughly between 24-33.\u201cSo the man who you will be considering in this trial is not the Mr Brand who is sitting in the dock, who is now 51.\u201dShe added that while Brand may have changed both physically and as a person in the years since that \u201chis responsibility for wrongs done, crimes committed at a younger age remain the same\u201d.Brand was 'ruthless, calculated and manipulative', court hearsKarmy-Jones said the allegations \u201cpunctuate\u201d 10 years of Brand\u2019s life when \u201chis career was beginning to flourish\u201d.\u201cHis public profile was taking off as he was progressing from doing gigs as a standup comedian at pubs and clubs to a TV presenter, an actor and Hollywood movie star,\u201d she told jurors.She added that the circumstances of the alleged offences were \u201cas wide and as varied as the defendant\u2019s career\u201d, and that the offending took place in a number of locations including a hotel room, workplaces, a toilet cubicle in a bar and at his home address.Continuing her opening statement, Karmy-Jones said:\n double quotation markSome of the women involved protested and said no, others had no opportunity to react to his advances but it mattered not to the defendant.\n Regardless of who they were and what they said or did, Russell Brand was not deterred.\n His desire, strong desire for some form of sexual contact, was indiscriminate and voracious. He would be nice when he wanted to be, funny \u2013 undoubtedly \u2013 charming, likable even \u2013 when he wanted something in return \u2013 but then demanding, entitled, a flirt with a huge sexual appetite, childlike in his expectation that his every desire should be met.\n He was ruthless, calculated and manipulative, and, the prosecution say, a sexual predator.\u201d\nProsecution outlines charges against Russell Brand as trial beginsProsecutor Riel Karmy-Jones has begun proceedings by outlining the charges against Russell Brand to the court.She told jurors:\n double quotation markRussell Brand, as you may know, and if you didn\u2019t know before this trial, is a celebrity.\n He was born on June 4 1975 making him now 51 years old.\n He is here as he has been charged with a number of sexual offences including rape and sexual assault as you heard, those offences were committed against six different women between approximately 1999 and 2009.\n Six different women, six women who did not know each other then and do not know each other now, who have never met each other, and who came forward independently of each other.\n Their paths all crossed the defendant\u2019s either through their employment, social events or through attending gigs where he was performing.\u201d\nBrand was driven to the court in a black Mercedes-Benz van, which parked directly outside the court building, where crowds of reporters and photographers had gathered for his trial.Brand waited inside the vehicle for around a minute before stepping out, wearing a dark suit, a black-and-white striped shirt, a long white tie and sunglasses. He reached out for his wife\u2019s hand before the pair walked together towards the court.Brand arrives at courtEmine SinmazRussell Brand spoke to the media as he arrived at court this morning, saying he was feeling \u201cconcerned but hopeful\u201d.He said: \u201cToday I feel blessed, I feel of course concerned but hopeful that this process will lead to good outcomes for everybody involved.\u201cThat\u2019s my prayer.\u201d Photograph: Jack Taylor/Reuters Photograph: Jack Taylor/Reuters Photograph: Jack Taylor/ReutersRussell Brand rape and sexual assault trial beginsRussell Brand will be back in Southwark crown court today where his rape and sexual assault trial is expected to begin.We should be hearing opening statements from the prosecution, which will set out an overview of the allegations against the 51-year-old comedian. He has been charged with three counts of rape, three of sexual assault and one of indecent assault against six women, in allegations that date from 1999 to 2009. Brand has pleaded not guilty to all the charges.He has been pictured arriving at court this morning with his wife, Laura Gallacher.Russell Brand arriving at Southwark crown court. Photograph: Ben Whitley/PAA jury was sworn in yesterday, with a warning from the judge, Mr Justice Bennathan, to ignore past reporting about Brand and allegations of sexual misconduct. You can read our report here:The Press Association has been outside court this morning, where news crews have been setting up shop several hours before the trial begins. 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