Six more women accuse Russell Brand of misconduct after his prison sentence, report says

Six more women have accused comedian Russell Brand, 51, of sexual misconduct and predatory behaviour, according to an investigation by the Times and the Sunday Times published days after he was sentenced to more than 10 years in prison. Brand was jailed 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 of attempted indecent assault. One new accuser says he had sex with her without consent and later apologised. Another says he continued 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 a fourth 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 The allegations have not been tested in court and could not be published earlier because of concerns about prejudicing the criminal case. The Sun separately reported that Brand, held at Category B Wandsworth, is being risk-assessed for a move to Category A HMP Wakefield, possibly within days or weeks, a source said.

The Guardian (left) leads with the new allegations and repeats the conviction details. It spends its opening on one woman's account of an on-off relationship in the late 2000s, giving her description of asking him to stop and deciding not to fight. The Daily Mail (right) leads with the same six accusations but labels Brand a rapist in its headline, adds the throat and lavatory claims, and stresses that the claims are untested. Its headline also adds the Wakefield transfer. Page Six (right) covers only the Sun's prison report, using a source's comments on safety, staffing and segregation, and noting that Ian Watkins was killed there last year. Both sides agree on the conviction, sentence and six-woman investigation. They differ in emphasis: the Guardian centres an accuser's testimony, while right-leaning outlets stress Brand's prison fate. AP (alternative) offers a distinct angle, placing Brand within a wider UK reckoning over celebrity misconduct that includes comedian David Walliams.