Russell Brand has been sentenced to ten and a half years in prison for rape and sexual assault.
As he was sentenced, the judge chose his words carefully, calling him a "sexual predator" who displayed "staggering arrogance" and had a casual disregard for any woman who said no to him.
He also punctured some of the myths around rape that Brand’s victims had to endure at the hands of his defence team. There are now growing calls for a change in the law to stamp that out.
The women themselves had their say, speaking of the unbearable trauma and distress Brand’s offending had caused them.
A man they couldn’t escape, a ubiquitous personality who thought he was above the law and whose conviction raises serious questions for the media acolytes who indulged him, and a celebrity culture in which it’s feared other powerful abusers have yet to be unmasked.
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