{"id":50760,"date":"2026-10-14T15:43:00","date_gmt":"2026-10-14T15:43:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/gpnewswire.com\/news\/russell-brand-was-ruthless-and-calculated-prosecutors-tell-jury-as-rape-and-sexual-assault-trial-begins-live\/"},"modified":"2026-10-14T15:43:00","modified_gmt":"2026-10-14T15:43:00","slug":"russell-brand-was-ruthless-and-calculated-prosecutors-tell-jury-as-rape-and-sexual-assault-trial-begins-live","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gpnewswire.com\/news\/russell-brand-was-ruthless-and-calculated-prosecutors-tell-jury-as-rape-and-sexual-assault-trial-begins-live\/","title":{"rendered":"Russell Brand was \u2018ruthless and calculated\u2019, prosecutors tell jury as rape and sexual assault trial begins \u2013 live"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Brand is in Southwark crown court today where his rape and sexual assault trial begins<\/p>\n<p>Taking 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.<\/p>\n<p>The third complainant was \u201cnot so lucky as to be able to pull away\u201d, the prosecutor said.<\/p>\n<p>She 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.<\/p>\n<p>At that point he gave up and went into the toilet, and she left the area.\u201d<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/uk-news\/live\/2026\/oct\/14\/russell-brand-trial-latest-news-updates\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Brand is in Southwark crown court today where his rape and sexual assault trial begins Taking 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 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":50761,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-50760","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-travel"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-10-25 15:41:51","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gpnewswire.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50760","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gpnewswire.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gpnewswire.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gpnewswire.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gpnewswire.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=50760"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/gpnewswire.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50760\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gpnewswire.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/50761"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gpnewswire.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=50760"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gpnewswire.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=50760"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gpnewswire.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=50760"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}