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Jurors in the trial of Russell Brand, who is accused of seven charges including rape and sexual assault, have begun their deliberations. The jury must reach a unanimous decision, the judge has told them. Brand, who denies all charges, has said he was obsessed with sex as a younger man but that his encounters were always consensual. Six women, who do not know each other, accuse the actor-comedian of sexual misconduct between 1999 and 2009. Prosecutors argued that during that time Brand was 'a sexual predator' who attacked the women in various locations. Brand's lawyers argued that the claimants' cases were undermined by the fact that they only went to police years after the alleged assaults, and following the broadcast of a 2023 documentary that contained anonymous allegations against Brand.
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