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Russell Brand's wife, Laura Gallacher, today took the stand to give evidence in his defence. She said she first struck up a relationship with the comedian after meeting him at one of his gigs when she was 19 in 2006. But she said their relationship didn't last more than a few months because he was promiscuous and cheated on her. Eight years later they rekindled their affair and got married. She said he was an 'amazing attentive husband' and 'wonderful' father to their three young children, and she loved him very much. Two other ex-girlfriends also gave statements to the court, telling the jury that Russell Brand was charismatic, gentle and charming when they dated in the 1990s but that they too ended their affairs because of his unfaithfulness and dependence on them for money. Sign up to The Crime Desk newsletter: https://www.dailymail.co.uk/newsletters/crime-desk/index.html?utm_source=youtube&utm_medium=organic_editorial&utm_campaign=conversion_newsletter&utm_term=crime_newsletter_ytd&utm_budgetpot=organic Follow us on TikTok @TheCrimeDesk or on Instagram @TheTrialPod Email us [email protected] WhatsApp us +447796657512 (start your message with ‘Trial’) Presenters: Caroline Cheetham and Liz Hull Editor: Tom James and Chelsey Ranore Creative Director: Caroline Cheetham Producer: Chelsey Ranore Assistant Producer: Harriet Muckle Production Manager: Vittoria Cecchini Actor: Harriet Muckle A Daily Mail production. Seriously Popular. The Trial series uses actors and some voices generated by AI. Their words are taken as verbatim from the official court transcript. Click here to sign up to The Crime Desk's weekly newsletter. It's free and packed with exclusive interviews, expert insight, and gripping deep dive investigations from across the world. A Daily Mail production. Seriously Popular. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Russell Brand has taken the stand and spent five hours in the witness box denying that he raped, sexually assaulted and attempted to indecently assault six women over a decade. He admitted he used his fame to beg, flirt and seduce countless women and said he'd dedicated much of his life to 'reckless philandering and idiocy.' But he insisted he only had sexual encounters with women who wanted IT and claimed consent was more important than the sex itself because he wanted to feel 'loved and adored.' Subscribe via https://plus.thecrimedesk.com/brand?sc_promo=BRAND Follow us on TikTok @TheCrimeDesk or on Instagram @TheTrialPod Email us [email protected] WhatsApp us +447796657512 (start your message with ‘Trial’) Presenters: Caroline Cheetham and Liz Hull Editor: Tom James and Chelsey Ranore Creative Director: Caroline Cheetham Producer: Chelsey Ranore Assistant Producer: Harriet Muckle Production Manager: Vittoria Cecchini Actor: Harry Sanders, Alfie Mulcahy and Lucy Ryan A Daily Mail production. Seriously Popular The Trial series uses actors and some voices generated by AI. Their words are taken as verbatim from the official court transcript. Click here to sign up to The Crime Desk's weekly newsletter. It's free and packed with exclusive interviews, expert insight, and gripping deep dive investigations from across the world. A Daily Mail production. Seriously Popular. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

The jury today heard the words of Russell Brand for the first time. They were told that he was interviewed by police four times over two years and each time insisted he’d never had non-consensual sex with anyone. He admitted he’d led a promiscuous life and had sex with countless women in a variety of locations, including toilet cubicles. But he insisted the women had ‘invented and reimagined’ their consensual encounters after watching a ‘defamatory and fictitious’ documentary or reading ‘false’ allegations in a national newspaper. Subscribe via https://plus.thecrimedesk.com/brand?sc_promo=BRAND Follow us on TikTok @TheCrimeDesk or on Instagram @TheTrialPod Email us [email protected] WhatsApp us +447796657512 (start your message with ‘Trial’) Presenters: Caroline Cheetham and Liz Hull Editor: Tom James and Chelsey Ranore Creative Director: Caroline Cheetham Producer: Chelsey Ranore Assistant Producer: Harriet Muckle Production Manager: Vittoria Cecchini Actor: Harry Sanders A Daily Mail production. Seriously Popular The Trial series uses actors and some voices generated by AI. Their words are taken as verbatim from the official court transcript. Click here to sign up to The Crime Desk's weekly newsletter. It's free and packed with exclusive interviews, expert insight, and gripping deep dive investigations from across the world. A Daily Mail production. Seriously Popular. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

The woman who was Russell Brand's PA at the height of his fame has said his sexual appetite was "insane." Helen Berger was giving evidence at his trial for several counts of sex offences. She said she often encountered Russell Brand having sex with different women - in his dressing room, in the bedroom of his flat in Camden, in the shower and in public toilets. She said even when he was working on a deadline he would ask for a break to "go and have sex." She said his behaviour was normalised by those around him and she quit after eight months. She said she never witnessed anything illegal but he treated women poorly. Subscribe via https://plus.thecrimedesk.com/brand?sc_promo=BRAND Follow us on TikTok @TheCrimeDesk or on Instagram @TheTrialPod Email us [email protected] WhatsApp us +447796657512 (start your message with ‘Trial’) Presenters: Caroline Cheetham and Liz Hull Editor: Tom James and Chelsey Ranore Creative Director: Caroline Cheetham Producer: Chelsey Ranore Assistant Producer: Harriet Muckle Production Manager: Vittoria Cecchini A Daily Mail production. Seriously Popular. The Trial series uses actors and some voices generated by AI. Their words are taken as verbatim from the official court transcript. Click here to sign up to The Crime Desk's weekly newsletter. It's free and packed with exclusive interviews, expert insight, and gripping deep dive investigations from across the world. A Daily Mail production. Seriously Popular. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Caroline Cheetham and Liz Hull bring you the key moments from Week 2 of Russell Brand’s trial, focusing on the evidence given by the final four women at the centre of the case. The court heard allegations relating to incidents spanning several years, including an alleged sexual assault at a Soho bar, an alleged assault at a London radio station, an alleged rape following a Russell Brand gig at the Hammersmith Apollo, and an alleged incident during a Channel 4 recording. The women’s accounts were challenged during cross-examination by Brand’s barrister, with the court also hearing evidence from friends and family about the impact of the alleged incidents and why some of the women took years to come forward. Brand denies all the charges against him. The Brand Breakdown is exclusive to Trial+, with Caroline and Liz bringing you a weekly roundup of the key evidence and developments from inside the courtroom. Presenter: Caroline Cheetham and Liz Hull Editor: Chelsey Ranore and Tom James Creative Director: Caroline Cheetham Assistant Producer: Harriet Muckle Production Manager: Vittoria Cecchini Click here to sign up to The Crime Desk's weekly newsletter. It's free and packed with exclusive interviews, expert insight, and gripping deep dive investigations from across the world. A Daily Mail production. Seriously Popular. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Day 10: The prosecution case is now nearing the end and several friends and relatives of the woman who alleges Russell Brand anally raped her are being called to give evidence or their statements read to the jury. One said she was crying, looked grey and ashen as she recounted what had happened at the comedian’s home. The friend said: ‘She looked ill, she said it really f***ing hurt.’ A nurse who later examined her also said she remembered the alleged victim saying she did not consent, while her father told her that she had been raped. Subscribe via https://plus.thecrimedesk.com/brand?sc_promo=BRAND Follow us on TikTok @TheCrimeDesk or on Instagram @TheTrialPod Email us [email protected] WhatsApp us +447796657512 (start your message with ‘Trial’) Presenters: Caroline Cheetham and Liz Hull Editor: Tom James and Chelsey Ranore Creative Director: Caroline Cheetham Producer: Chelsey Ranore Assistant Producer: Harriet Muckle Production Manager: Vittoria Cecchini Actor: Harriet Muckle A Daily Mail production. Seriously Popular. The Trial series uses actors and some voices generated by AI. Their words are taken as verbatim from the official court transcript. Click here to sign up to The Crime Desk's weekly newsletter. It's free and packed with exclusive interviews, expert insight, and gripping deep dive investigations from across the world. A Daily Mail production. Seriously Popular. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Day 9: We've now heard from all six of the women in the case. Today Caroline and Liz have the words of the final three of them. One alleges Russell Brand attacked her in a frenzy, kissing and groping her without warning in front of several members of his entourage, before laughing when she told him to 'f*** off.' Another claims he 'hurt and harmed her' during an alleged rape after she met him backstage at a stand-up gig. She says he refused to stop when she cried out in pain. The final woman also alleges sexual assault. She complained to her bosses at Channel 4 when he demanded a massage during a Christmas project they were working on. Subscribe via https://plus.thecrimedesk.com/brand?sc_promo=BRAND Follow us on TikTok @TheCrimeDesk or on Instagram @TheTrialPod Email us [email protected] WhatsApp us +447796657512 (start your message with ‘Trial’) Presenters: Caroline Cheetham and Liz Hull Editor: Tom James and Chelsey Ranore Creative Director: Caroline Cheetham Producer: Chelsey Ranore Assistant Producer: Harriet Muckle Production Manager: Vittoria Cecchini Actor: Gina Whitaker, Grace Haughton, Lucy Ryan, Alfie Mulcahy, Catherine Davies-Payne and Harry Sanders A Daily Mail production. Seriously Popular. The Trial series uses actors and some voices generated by AI. Their words are taken as verbatim from the official court transcript. Click here to sign up to The Crime Desk's weekly newsletter. It's free and packed with exclusive interviews, expert insight, and gripping deep dive investigations from across the world. A Daily Mail production. Seriously Popular. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Day 8: The final alleged victim of Russell Brand said she felt degraded “like a piece of meat” after he anally raped her. She said for years she blamed herself for willingly going to his house for sex. But she did not consent to what he did. She became an alcoholic and struggled to live with the guilt and shame. But she said part of her recovery was accepting what happened was not her fault. Russell Brand denies the charges. Subscribe via https://plus.thecrimedesk.com/brand?sc_promo=BRAND Follow us on TikTok @TheCrimeDesk or on Instagram @TheTrialPod Email us [email protected] WhatsApp us +447796657512 (start your message with ‘Trial’) Presenters: Caroline Cheetham and Liz Hull Editor: Tom James and Chelsey Ranore Creative Director: Caroline Cheetham Producer: Chelsey Ranore Assistant Producer: Harriet Muckle Production Manager: Vittoria Cecchini Actor: Grace Haughton A Daily Mail production. Seriously Popular. The Trial series uses actors and some voices generated by AI. Their words are taken as verbatim from the official court transcript. Click here to sign up to The Crime Desk's weekly newsletter. It's free and packed with exclusive interviews, expert insight, and gripping deep dive investigations from across the world. A Daily Mail production. Seriously Popular. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

It’s Day 7 of The Trial: Russell Brand and we’ve now heard from four of the six women at the case. They all accuse Russell Brand of some kind of sexual offences. Today we’ve got the words of a woman who says she was leapt on by Russell Brand when she was working for a radio station in the early 2000s when he was staring in the Big Brother spin off show. She said he leapt on her in a tiny room, kissed her and groped her, pinning her against a wall - and she said his entourage of three men and a woman did nothing to stop him. Another woman said Russell Brand orally raped her after dragging her into a toilet in a bar and another said Russell Brand put his head into groin during a filming project. Caroline and Liz have their words today. Subscribe via https://plus.thecrimedesk.com/brand?sc_promo=BRAND Follow us on TikTok @TheCrimeDesk or on Instagram @TheTrialPod Email us [email protected] WhatsApp us +447796657512 (start your message with ‘Trial’) Presenters: Caroline Cheetham and Liz Hull Editor: Tom James and Chelsey Ranore Creative Director: Caroline Cheetham Producer: Chelsey Ranore Assistant Producer: Harriet Muckle Production Manager: Vittoria Cecchini Actors: Gina Whitaker, Lucy Ryan, Alfie Mulcahy, Beth Hale and Charlotte Gill A Daily Mail production. Seriously Popular. The Trial series uses actors and some voices generated by AI. Their words are taken as verbatim from the official court transcript. Click here to sign up to The Crime Desk's weekly newsletter. It's free and packed with exclusive interviews, expert insight, and gripping deep dive investigations from across the world. A Daily Mail production. Seriously Popular. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

It's Day 6 of Russell Brand's trial and we've now heard from three alleged victims. One of the women told the jury today that within 30 seconds of meeting him in a bar in 2004, Russell Brand grabbed her breasts, and then dragged her into the toilet where he orally raped her. The woman said she was in shock and in a daze after the alleged attack but afterwards Russell Brand simply suggested they swap numbers. We've also now heard from another woman who said that in 2001 Russell Brand also tried to drag her into the toilets after they met at MTV where she was working. She said he was forceful and he had a "wild look in his eye." She said he was trying to assault her but she managed to get away. Subscribe now. Follow us on TikTok @TheCrimeDesk or on Instagram @TheTrialPod Email us [email protected] WhatsApp us +447796657512 (start your message with ‘Trial’) Presenters: Caroline Cheetham and Liz Hull Editor: Tom James and Chelsey Ranore Producer: Chelsey Ranore Assistant Producer: Harriet Muckle Production Manager: Vittoria Cecchini Creative Director: Caroline Cheetham Executive Producer: Jamie East The Trial series uses actors and some voices generated by AI. Their words are taken as verbatim from the official court transcript. Click here to sign up to The Crime Desk's weekly newsletter. It's free and packed with exclusive interviews, expert insight, and gripping deep dive investigations from across the world. A Daily Mail production. Seriously Popular. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

What happened during the first week of Russell Brand’s trial? Caroline Cheetham and Liz Hull take you through the key moments, from jury selection to the first witnesses giving evidence. The jury heard allegations relating to six women and seven charges, including three counts of rape, three counts of sexual assault and one count of indecent assault. One woman told the court about an alleged rape at the 1999 Labour Party Conference in Bournemouth, while a former friend gave evidence about Brand’s attitude towards women and recalled conversations about his ambition to sleep with 5,000 women. The court also heard the first witness being cross-examined by Brand’s barrister about her account of events. Brand denies all seven charges. The Brand Breakdown is exclusive to Trial+, with Caroline and Liz bringing you a weekly roundup of the key evidence and developments from inside the courtroom. Presenter: Caroline Cheetham and Liz Hull Editor: Chelsey Ranore Creative Director: Caroline Cheetham Assistant Producer: Harriet Muckle Production Manager: Vittoria Cecchini Click here to sign up to The Crime Desk's weekly newsletter. It's free and packed with exclusive interviews, expert insight, and gripping deep dive investigations from across the world. A Daily Mail production. Seriously Popular. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

What really happened at the Labour Party Conference in 1999? A woman who says she was the victim of a sex attack there, claims he went from being charming and chatty to monstrous in a matter of hours. "He wanted sex" she said "and I was there." She told her story to the jury sitting on his trial, and when she was challenged by Russell Brand's barrister that she had consented to sex, but regretted her decision later, she said: "I did not consent to rape." Caroline and Liz have her words, plus the evidence of Russell Brand's friend who said he used to line his fans up against a wall - choose one and take her for sex in a toilet. Ten minutes later he'd come back, choose another one and "repeat." Subscribe via plus.thecrimedesk.com/brand?sc_promo=BRAND Follow us on TikTok @TheCrimeDesk or on Instagram @TheTrialPod Email us [email protected] WhatsApp us +447796657512 (start your message with ‘Trial’) Presenters: Caroline Cheetham and Liz Hull Editor: Tom James and Chelsey Ranore Creative Director: Caroline Cheetham Producer: Chelsey Ranore Assistant Producer: Harriet Muckle Production Manager: Vittoria Cecchini Executive Producer: Jamie East The Trial series uses actors and some voices generated by AI. Their words are taken as verbatim from the official court transcript. Click here to sign up to The Crime Desk's weekly newsletter. It's free and packed with exclusive interviews, expert insight, and gripping deep dive investigations from across the world. A Daily Mail production. Seriously Popular. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

One of the women who claims she was raped by Russell Brand in 1999 today spoke about what she says happened to her. She said he attacked her in a hotel room after she met him at the Labour Party Conference in Bournemouth. She told the jury at Southwark Crown Court that he pulled her onto a bed, pressed himself on top of her, ripped her clothes down and raped her. She said she felt dirty, shocked and stupid, and for over 20 years she blocked it from her mind until she came forward to report it to the police in 2023. Caroline and Liz were in court as the evidence unfolded. Subscribe via https://plus.thecrimedesk.com/brand?sc_promo=BRAND Follow us on TikTok @TheCrimeDesk or on Instagram @TheTrialPod Email us [email protected] WhatsApp us +447796657512 (start your message with ‘Trial’) Presenters: Caroline Cheetham and Liz Hull Editor: Tom James and Chelsey Ranore Creative Director: Caroline Cheetham Producer: Chelsey Ranore Assistant Producer: Harriet Muckle Production Manager: Vittoria Cecchini A Daily Mail production. Seriously Popular. The Trial series uses actors and some voices generated by AI. Their words are taken as verbatim from the official court transcript. Click here to sign up to The Crime Desk's weekly newsletter. It's free and packed with exclusive interviews, expert insight, and gripping deep dive investigations from across the world. A Daily Mail production. Seriously Popular. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

"Ruthless, calculating, manipulative, a sexual predator." Those are the words used today to describe Russell Brand. As the prosecution opened their case in London, Russell Brand was accused of not caring what state he left his victims in, in his quest to satify his "insatiable desire" to get what he wanted. He's accused of raping and sexually assaulting women over a decade. It's alleged none of them consented to his attacks and some of them begged him to stop. Caroline and Liz were in court as details of the allegations started to emerge. Some of the content today may be upsetting. Subscribe via https://plus.thecrimedesk.com/brand?sc_promo=BRAND Follow us on TikTok @TheCrimeDesk or on Instagram @TheTrialPod Email us [email protected] WhatsApp us +447796657512 (start your message with ‘Trial’) Presenters: Caroline Cheetham and Liz Hull Editor: Tom James and Chelsey Ranore Creative Director: Caroline Cheetham Producer: Chelsey Ranore Assistant Producer: Harriet Muckle Production Manager: Vittoria Cecchini A Daily Mail production. Seriously Popular. The Trial series uses actors and some voices generated by AI. Their words are taken as verbatim from the official court transcript. Click here to sign up to The Crime Desk's weekly newsletter. It's free and packed with exclusive interviews, expert insight, and gripping deep dive investigations from across the world. A Daily Mail production. Seriously Popular. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

It's Day 2 of Russell Brand's trial and the 12 people who will decide his fate have been selected. Russell Brand looked on from the dock as the jury of 8 men and 4 women all swore to try his case according to the evidence. They were told by the judge not to disucss the case outside of the jury, to carry out their own research, or to be swayed by the views of others. And they were warned to ignore media coverage of the case. Caroline and Liz were there to see it unfold. Subscribe via https://plus.thecrimedesk.com Follow us on TikTok @TheCrimeDesk or on Instagram @TheTrialPod Email us [email protected] WhatsApp us +447796657512 (start your message with ‘Trial’) Presenters: Caroline Cheetham and Liz Hull Editor: Tom James and Chelsey Ranore Creative Director: Caroline Cheetham Producer: Chelsey Ranore Assistant Producer: Harriet Muckle Production Manager: Vittoria Cecchini A Daily Mail production. Seriously Popular. The Trial series uses actors and some voices generated by AI. Their words are taken as verbatim from the official court transcript. Click here to sign up to The Crime Desk's weekly newsletter. It's free and packed with exclusive interviews, expert insight, and gripping deep dive investigations from across the world. A Daily Mail production. Seriously Popular. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.