Russell Brand donated £3k to rape charity just one year after he committed offence himself

Disgraced comedian Russell Brand made a £3k donation to a rape crisis charity just one year after he had committed the crime himself, it’s been uncovered. 

The South Essex Rape and Incest Crisis Centre (SERICC) confirmed the money was gifted for its 25th anniversary party in 2010. The charity said the donation had come from Russell Brand’s management team, on his behalf. 

This week, Brand was sentenced to 10 years and six months in prison, after being found guilty of rape and sexual assault. One of his convictions was the rape a 21-year-old woman in 2009, just one year prior to his donation.

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SERICC founder Sheila Coates said: “He supported four or five local charities in the area he was from, but this is really about his abuse of power, the other part of the Russell Brand personality.

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“There is something about celebrity, money, power, control. When you get fame and money, some men abuse that position and that’s what he’s done.

“We’ve seen this so many times with famous men, it’s not a shock it’s disappointment and it goes on and on and on, that’s the disappointment, not really the shock because we’ve seen this with others.

“We still need to do some work around the myths and facts around sexual assault, all judges are supposed to do that, but I don’t think all of them do, so we’ve got to make sure that happens so that justice is fair and victims are not blamed for their own assault.” 

Passing Brand his 10 year and six month sentence, Mr Justice Bennathan delivered a powerful speech in which he described Brand as a “sexual predator” who had shown “staggering arrogance” and told a “series of lies”. Brand will serve two-thirds of his sentence in prison before being released on licence. 

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