Entertainer Russell Brand sentenced to 10 years and six months in prison

Russell Brand, the firebrand comedian and actor, has been sentenced to more than ten years in prison for rape and sexual assault. Judge Joel Bennathan, reading out the sentence, said “Whatever women wear, wherever they go, indeed whatever they drink, they retain the right to say no and to to demand justice from the criminal courts when sexual predators like you, Russell Brand, act without their consent.”