Met says Russell Brand suspected of attacking at least 10 other women
In 2014 a woman accused Brand of assault. He sued her for harassment. The judge - despite acknowledging that she might have told the truth - ordered her to never speak to anyone about this, including doctors, therapists and police. Judges should not have this power. taxpolicy.org.uk/2026/11/07/r...
Elle191How can you order someone not to talk to a fucking therapist??!
Dan Murphy55This is a very strong disincentive for ANY woman ever to go to the police and report a well known or wealthy man for assault. She risks personal bankruptcy in additon to the years of grinding legal process before any chance of ever being heard in a court. No wonder many women choose to say nothing.
Ian Garrow48If the police were to interview her now, would the NDA still be in effect?
Joel Herron - Pica Pica Press48How many other women currently have the same thing? Should they come forward and be protected?
Marie Leanne Shrewsbury40It really bring home to you what a corrupt country the UK is. 😬
Henri Chopin26Looks like Brand had the protection of powerful men. No justice here. Disgraceful
猫好きな人68That she could not even talk to the police
✨Zelly✨49i’m not familiar with uk law, but it seems to have extraordinary power to stop people from supporting palestine, calling brand a rapist, or calling jkr a transphobe. wild legal system
Donna Ladd said what she said. 😘27Fck this judge and the rapist-protector structures that create and sustain them
oliver24the british legal system can issue fucking cognitohazards oh my god
Joy23So many women are victims of the same damn legal system everyone swears up and down is the only thing between women and harm. Ironically evil.
clyde bruckman's skeleton's final repost17throw the judge into the sea as well
Lamentably Awake14Once again worth noting that right wing ~Free Speech~ warriors never, ever criticise libel laws.
Doctor Charlton Cussans PhD13Super-injunctions are a violation of our ancient British liberties.
Tauriq Moosa12I cannot believe the breadth of this: How can you restrict someone from even SPEAKING ABOUT this alleged crime, not even to the fucking police? I’ve never seen a court ruling this extensive even when a case been fully ventilated on the merits which was not even done here. It was a summary judgment.
HudsonRiverCroc12This is making the rounds and I don’t know what to say, doesn’t seem legal or possible.
This is a goddamn nightmare. I knew the russell brand stuff was bad but holy jesus
jenny breadful128she was even banned from talking to POLICE. definitely a thing someone who hadn't committed sexual assault would ask for!
Kaitensatsuma74I'm not saying the Libel laws around here are great, but the UK has to take a fucking long and hard look at how broken theirs is. Like, how maybe before shutting someone up until the evidence is entirely public - INVESTIGATE THE CLAIMS - and it might prevent further tragedy from happening?
Patio Yeller55the UK sure loves their rich rapists, bloody hell
Captain Bergatron42British defamation protections are out of control and yet somehow they still end up with the most batshit tabloid industry
Ben Jackson28This isn’t even a super injunction, which are So. Much. Worse. Normal injunctions prevent the media covering something, but these ALSO prevent the reporting of the fact that the injunction exists at all. We have literally no way to know when a super injunction has been granted.
Jol23We uh, might have to start killing people immediately
Remember: if it was incredibly hard to convict Russell Brand, whose on-stage clown persona was “a gigantic in-plain-sight cartoon sexual predator”, based mainly on what the public and his peers knew about his actual behaviour, just think how many nice guys are just getting away with it.
Joel Morris235Was told this week that Brand apparently had a Winnebago that he’d get driven round in, so other vile industry creeps could jump in, hoping to pick up his “scraps” after gigs. You know. Like Jimmy Savile’s nonce-caravan. And yet it was hard to construct a case that he was a wrong ‘un. Jesus.
Hermia Jones50Not just showbiz. There are predators swanning around institutions in higher education like they are heroic pro-social, selfless, angelic, enlightened males fully empowering & celebrating women. Covertly entitled, opportunistic & abusive behind closed doors if they know they can get away with it.
Felix Dos Santos16Our generation sat in disbelief that the previous generation allowed Saville to do what he did. Seems we're not as sharp as we thought.
pygmyshrew.bsky.social16Made untouchable by his network? bsky.app/profile/dann...
Captain Sidecar7Many years ago, long before Brand got big, I knew a bloke whose public persona, and even appearance, were so Brand-esque that I seriously wonder if their paths crossed somewhere and Brand adopted his schtick.
isosolies.bsky.social7There's another "in plain site" predator I can think of thats recently been throwing injunction around. Lets see if they can take him down quicker than they did Brand.
Josephine Riesman202The shadow of the Neil Gaimans of the world looms large in all of entertainment
Small Robots45This was the point I was trying to make yesterday - not that he wasn't popular per se or that "Everyone knew!" but that he wasn't some kind of cuddly national treasure who shockingly turned out to be a predator. Everyone was always wary of him, but at one time in his career that was a selling point.
Elise Bell16Not to sound demented (unfortunately I’m not) but until men - and especially left wing men - reckon with the fact that there are men who rape women who have the same politics as them, the same humour, same clothes, music taste, Letterboxd rankings (whatever), then nothing will ever change.
András Forgács W11Here's the thing We have the tour dates. The line up. It wouldn't take long to just ask a few questions to anyone who ever did support for him
Tim Byrne7Neil Gaiman has (creepily) entered the chat.
Were you one of those people who NEVER liked Russell Brand? Who found his 'humour' boring and childish, and his behaviour creepy and 'rapey' even right from the start. Shout out if you were.
Old man Griffin58The Sachs incident showed him in a true light.
Agrippa22Yep. Add Fielding, Ross and Walliams to the list.
HT4Ecosocialism18👍 I thought he was crap and a creep from day one!
I never really understood why he was perceived to be funny.
Mike Bailey13Of course, a real creep. Jimmy Saville springs to mind as another obvious pervert people couldn’t seem to see through. It’s a category I’d put Johnson, Farage and Gove into.
janebraybrook.bsky.social13Never found him funny, hated his whiny voice and Jimmy Savile eyes. The real betrayal for me was Rolf Harris.
Elinor Elliot15I vividly remember seeing him on BBLB back in the day and thinking "who is this pretentious weirdo and what's with the word salad?" It struck me his schtick was ALL ABOUT manipulation. Highly narcissistic. And after "Sachsgate" I couldn't bear the sight/sound of either him or Jonathan Ross.
Grenobob5I was fairly ambivalent towards him when he first arrived on the scene, as he seemed too full of himself. But disliked him and Jonathan Ross intensely after the sexually explicit 'prank' phone call they made to Andrew Sachs in 2008.
Craigie 🇵🇸 🇸🇩🚩☮️🔻Proudly Un-British4I think most people with more than a couple of neurons bouncing around in their heads always hated the nasty little prick.
Grantass 🏴3Hate this holier than thou shit. Humour in the 90s & 00s was very, very different to now. Me and pals laughed away at Brand at the time, I cringe at half the stuff that was presented as funny. As it happens he became irritating very quickly, he was hard to avoid for a while on the telly.
Send him to the Clinky-Wink. My thoughts on Russell Brand, including a theory about his rhetorical nods to Jimmy Savile and Boris Johnson. countbinface.substack.com/p/send-him-t...
Non-dairy Canary8He is a crooky wook.
pygmyshrew.bsky.social6It's almost like they have made it into an elite network that protects them time and time again... #Untouchable bsky.app/profile/dann...
MarvinTandroid5Throw the booky-wook at him.
Andy Harbison5I’d have gone with ‘prisonywison’ myself, but good to see a nasty piece of work locked up, if much, much too late. He showed what kind of creature he was with Andrew Sachs, and people have known for decades he was a sleazy predator.
Steve2I love how the court artist obviously despises him.
Just V Is Fine1Lock. Him. Up. He was found guilty and convicted. No exceptions, no 'special treatment' because he's a 'celebrity'. And throw away the key.
the Russell Brand stuff and the UK Naughty Sex Act is such a lovely thematic overlap. A ruling class whose unaccountable sexual exploits are the privilege of power viewing the population of proles and plebians as exactly as full of overflowing sinful impulses as themselves
yoshimi red142there are a lot of novels from authentically protestant britain about how the catholic church is a neurotic mess of sexual deviants just desperate to sin while enforcing purity on the masses and. can i just say
UK Prime Minister, Some Say Sinister2If you don't get a book deal from Verso out of this post there is no justice in the world.
McGovern4President '281the point IS the privilege. they want to be superior to us. either that or it's projection of their own insecurities onto everybody else.
People like GB News presenter Neil Oliver can fit any conspiracy to justify their opinions, so it's no surprise he's still friends with the rapist Russell Brand, I expect he thinks he's just been targeted for his views. See also, Scott Ritter and pals.
Matthew Jackson4How anyone thinks his views are ‘dangerous’ to the ‘mainstream’ is ludicrous , he was mates with the super rich in US - a real outsider Christian would befriend an impoverished amputee in some hellish factory town - not smoking cigars with Trump.
* Cheats2Time GBNews was put out of our misery. What is Nandy thinking?
Stuart Hemingway1Wasn’t his defence the fact that he no longer had friends due to this trial.
Gaius Faelis Juvenalis1are they, trying to look like each other?
El Topo1He didn't like him enough to go to court and speak to his character though
nancyspantsbelt.bsky.social1All these perverts of a feather!👹👹
Wild. In 2014, massage therapist Sylvie Berki accused Russell Brand of assaulting her. The police took no action. Brand and his then girlfriend sued her. Ms Berki had no lawyer, and there was no trial. But the High Court issued an extraordinary injunction that silenced her for the rest of her life.
Khashoggi's Ghost49The injunction was supposed to prevent harassment, but it went well beyond. It prohibits Berki from telling anyone what happened – not journalists, not friends, not family, not even the police. The court also orderd her to pay £50,000 i(which she couldn’t afford) and authorised her bankruptcy.
Frank8The judge in this case needs to become famous
hulkling 86 475take a look at the judge something funky there
I have someone commenting elsewhere trying to persuade me that ‘they’ went after Brand because he was anti-vaccines. He started on the anti-vax line because his ‘guru’ content didn’t do well on YouTube. The ‘government’ was not after Russell Brand.
Mic Wright90Brand’s turn to the right was about getting himself an army of these people who will now defend him as a “truth-teller”. And in doing that he spent a lot of time persuading them only they can see what’s *really* happening.
Jane8Reckon the only people after Russell Brand were his creditors. Hollywood had certainly stopped calling for any major roles. In 2021 he bought the Crown Inn in Pishill (only pub in the village) allegedly to run a vegan restaurant and studio. Locals not happy. Planning refused. Sold it in April 2026
Matt Pearson5It was utter shite, even by the standard of YouTube content (ie random bloke gets a camera and talks shite for 10 minutes and people watch it) it was low quality and nobody was buying it.
Lucy Abbotts 5It’s a cult. You shall know them by their ready adoption of any old conspiracist cr*p.
Mike here, hello4He’s a cynical manipulator and always has been, this is in his nature and was no surprise.
hafuhime93.bsky.social3Anything but hold shitty men accountable...
🚨 Convicted rapist, Russell Brand, held nightly prayer sessions on social media during his trial. Christianity has become an excuse to commit heinous acts. You only need to say you are a Christian. This is why people are turning away from organized religion. www.theguardian.com/culture/2026...
jojitsu7As an atheist I'm way more 'Christian' than any of these so-called Christians. I've also actually read the Bible and understood it.
Trickcyclist 🦋🏴🇪🇺7As an atheist for nearly 6 decades. Nothing has ever surprised me about so called Christians and things done in the name of their god.
Jas 🪶🐻🦉🇺🇸🇨🇦4My favorite meme. Explains it completely! It began with a rape.
blitzen13 🇨🇦3Apparently you can do as many bad things as you like, then pray a little and say that "God has forgiven me" and then you don't have to actually apologize or make reparations because no one else can judge you. Clean slate!
Journey To Bliss2And this is not a new thing. The “forgiveness” program has been a crafty tool for depraved “Christians” for many centuries, absolving heinous acts by the “belief” that Jesus already paid for the immoral behavior (sin) so those who are actually responsible can be renewed and restored.
Brehon2Always question the motives of anyone loudly claiming to be a Christian or a Patriot. The real ones don't do that. The fake ones use the word as a shield against criticism.
Every side of the political spectrum trying to blame the other side for Russell Brand, and it just doesn’t fucking matter whether he’s left or right or whatever
LINA 🥙 لينا43That’s not why he’s a rapist
Duncan2It's mainly the left countering lies from the right, but I'm with you that his leanings don't matter, he's an evil cunt, that is all
Orange Blossom Honey • #ProtectJho10Seriously. He is a waste of carbon regardless.
Craigie 🇵🇸 🇸🇩🚩☮️🔻Proudly Un-British4Yep, he's just a rapist and a misogynistic twat and unfortunately they are everywhere.
Hilarie Ashton3Yup. And it's not like we don't have rape apologists on the left. We have SO many.
Jubilee 🔞3Russel Brand is a disgusting rapist, and he successfully has silenced his victim from ever speaking out on the matter. bsky.app/profile/dann...
