Six more women accuse Russell Brand of misconduct days after his rape conviction sentence

Russell Brand, 51, has been accused of sexual misconduct and predatory behaviour by six more women, according to an investigation by The Times and The Sunday Times, days after he was sentenced to more than 10 years in prison. Brand was sentenced on Monday at Southwark Crown Court in London after being convicted of raping a 21-year-old fan and sexually assaulting three women in separate incidents between 2004 and 2009. He was cleared of two further rape charges and one charge of attempted indecent assault. In the new accounts, one woman said Brand had sex with her without consent and later apologised, and another said he carried on after she asked him to stop because he was hurting her. A third alleges he grabbed her by the throat and assaulted her in a hotel room, and another says he tried to pull her into a disabled lavatory at a London venue as recently as 2015. The allegations have not been tested in court. They could not be published earlier because of concerns about prejudicing the criminal case.

On the right, the Daily Mail leads with the new allegations, calls Brand a "rapist" in its headline, and adds the throat and lavatory claims. Its headline also cites a report of a prison move, and it notes the claims are untested. The Blaze takes a different angle: Glenn Beck, a Blaze Media co-founder, questions whether prosecutors proved the case beyond a reasonable doubt, while noting Brand's own account of finding Jesus. On the left, The Guardian relies on the same Times report and conviction facts, but calls him an "ex-comedian" and centres one woman's quoted account of asking him to stop. It also spells out the acquittals, and its opening does not include the throat or lavatory claims. Reason, an independent outlet, treats the conviction as one segment of a wider podcast.