'There was a huge amount of evidence': How predator Russell Brand was exposed by journalists

Russell Brand has been sentenced to 10 and a half years in prison after being convicted of one rape and three sexual assaults. But the investigation that led to his trial began years earlier, with journalists from The Times, the Sunday Times and Channel 4's Dispatches working together to uncover allegations against him. In this episode of Four the Record - Russell Brand on Trial, Minnie Stephenson speaks to two of the journalists behind the original investigation: Channel 4 News's Head of Forensic Journalism Paul Morgan-Bentley and The Times's Investigations Correspondent Charlotte Wace. They explain how they found the women who were willing to speak out, the evidence that helped corroborate their accounts and the challenges of investigating such a powerful public figure. Warning: this episode contains descriptions of alleged sexual assault and rape. ------- Get more news at our site - https://www.channel4.com/news/ Subscribe to our Substack newsletter: https://channel4news.substack.com/subscribe Follow us: TikTok - https://www.tiktok.com/@c4news Instagram - https://www.instagram.com/channel4news/ Twitter - https://twitter.com/Channel4News Facebook - https://www.facebook.com/Channel4News/