London
Reuters
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British police stated on Tuesday that comedian and actor Russell Brand had been charged with a brand new rely of rape and one other of sexual assault.
The new prices – licensed by the Crown Prosecution Service – associated to two ladies and adopted 5 prices made in April involving 4 different ladies: two counts of rape, one among indecent assault and two of sexual assault, going again more than two many years.
Brand, 50, will seem at Westminster Magistrates’ Court on January 20 in relation to the brand new prices. A trial on the sooner prices is scheduled to start at Southwark Crown Court on June 16.
Reuters has tried to achieve Brand for remark.
Brand pleaded not responsible in May to the 5 authentic prices. Once a well known broadcaster in Britain and a former husband of US pop singer Katy Perry, he has denied having non-consensual sex.
After the unique prices had been introduced, he stated he had been a idiot and a sex addict in his youthful days however “what I never was, was a rapist.”
The authentic investigation started in September 2023 after allegations had been reported by Channel 4 TV’s “Dispatches” present and The Sunday Times newspaper.