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Prosecutor tells Brand jury accusers lived with alleged crimes for years
BBC reported that at Southwark Crown Court on Friday, prosecutor Reil Karmy-Jones KC told jurors some women in Russell Brand's rape and sexual assault case had been haunted for years by what they allege.
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Closing speeches began Friday in the rape and sexual assault trial of Russell Brand at Southwark Crown Court in London, the BBC reported from the courtroom1.
Brand, 51, faces seven charges: three counts of rape, three of sexual assault and one allegation of attempted indecent assault1. He denies the charges1.
Prosecutor Reil Karmy-Jones KC told jurors some of the women had been haunted for years by what they allege Brand did, the BBC said1. She said they had nothing to gain from coming forward apart from some closure1.
Karmy-Jones rejected the idea that a documentary had led the women to reinvent events, saying they had realized they were not alone and had come to court to tell the truth, according to the BBC1.
She contrasted Brand's interview answers with later detail, the BBC reported1. "The defendant couldn't really remember anything when he was interviewed," she told the jury1.
For the defence, Polly Dyer told jurors Brand pleaded guilty in 1995 to possessing cannabis and was fined, and that he has no other convictions, cautions, reprimands or warnings, the BBC said1.
The trial continues1.