Brand, 51, faced seven charges in total, including three counts of rape. The judge tells him: “Obviously a custodial sentence of some length will result.”

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    Another classic example of someone suddenly and mysteriously becoming a “right-wing influencer” in an attempt to make allegations go away.

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    Bot sure why i clicked on the "watch live link, but i’m glad i watched him get out of a car 8 times from 8 different angles

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    Always knew he was a cunty wunt from the time he made that phone call to Andrew Sachs.

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    I saw a lot of articles about this as the trial was ongoing - more than for most ongoing trials. I don’t know if the reporting rules were different or what, but I really didn’t want to read about it until the trial was over. I don’t really know why, but I think partly I knew I didn’t want to read about a rape trial every single day and so I would only get a partial view of things at that level of detail. I’d rather have the court do the summarising for me by handing down a verdict and then read at the conclusion.

    Now that’s happened, I’m glad justice has been served. It’s always mixed feelings with these trials: it turns out another public figure was a scumbag, but at least another scumbag is going to be punished. Hopefully the publicity leads to a sense that these crimes are unacceptable and will be punished.