It was a secret code that would only be solved some 17 years after the crime.
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that → solve → crime
Hidden among thousands of phone contacts, Russell Brand saved the number of his youngest rape victim under T – for 'Tart'.
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Brand → hide → Tart
In a sickening twist, he added two stars to her name in an apparent rating of the 21-year-old fan whom he brutally attacked, sending her into a spiral of depression and alcoholism that threatened to wreck her life.
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that → add → life
It was just one of the repellent details jurors heard during Brand's trial at Southwark Crown Court.
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jurors → hear → Court
The man who proudly referred to his world as an 'amusement park made out of orgasms' treated his victims as mere playthings.
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who → refer → playthings
In fact, he told friends that his goal was to 'bed 5,000 women in his lifetime', insisting: 'All you have to do is tell them what they need to hear'.
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they → tell → what
Brand ordered security staff to line up women for his roving eye at gigs where the comedian issued an open invitation to the audience: 'If you see me in the foyer and you think, I really fancy him and I'd like to have sex with him, but I can't because it's Russell Brand, you probably can have sex with me – my age range goes from 16 to death.
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range → order → death
For one fan who accepted that invitation in 2009, the consequences were lifelong.
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consequences → accept → 2009
Russell Brand saved a 21-year-woman that he raped in his phone as T - for 'Tart'
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he → save → Tart
After a month-long trial, Brand was found guilty of raping 'T' and sexually assaulting three other women
Photographers clamour to get a picture of Brand as he is carted away in the prison van
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he → find → van
The starstruck 21-year-old was selected along with a teenager for a threesome after Brand pointed at her in a line of fans in the Hammersmith Apollo foyer, saying: 'You.
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Brand → select → You
Giddy with excitement, she went for drinks with the comic before he invited her backstage where she performed oral sex, before the 33-year-old had sex with the 19-year-old.
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old → go → old
Afterwards, she said: 'I came out feeling f****** awful.
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I → say → f
The woman confessed to her boyfriend afterwards and they split up.
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they → confess → boyfriend
Brand then began texting 'T', promising: 'I will hold you and help you.'
But his pledge to help her mend a broken heart melted away when she went to his £2.3million Hampstead mansion.
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she → begin → mansion
There, she was raped by Brand, who pushed her face-down into the pillow of his bed beneath a framed crucifix.
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who → rap → crucifix
The bleeding victim was then ordered to 'clean up the mess you have made' as Brand watched TV.
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Brand → bleed → TV
Russell Brand has been found guilty of rape and three sexual assaults - and our reporters Caroline Cheetham and Liz Hull were in court every day to witness it all.
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reporters → find → it
They sat down with Detective Inspector Laura Nelson who revealed why the women who accused him in the infamous documentary were not involved in his rape trial.
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who → sit → trial
'I felt like I could not speak and breathe.
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I → feel → ?
I was not aware that he was going to do that, there was not any conversation,' she recalled.
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she → go → that
'I asked him to stop quietly then I said it a few times more loudly.
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I → ask → it
'He said "I want you to feel my c***".'
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you → say → *
She told police she was treated 'like an animal' adding: 'In the years that followed, I tortured myself because it was one of the most painful experiences I have ever gone through.'
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I → tell → experiences
The victim was ushered out of his house by staff before being handed tissues by a driver who remained silent as she sobbed on the journey home.
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she → usher → journey
Feeling 'small and powerless', the woman stopped eating, sleeping and later developed an addiction to alcohol.
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woman → feel → alcohol
As for Brand, when asked on the stand about stains on his sheets after the rape, Brand shrugged: 'I have a vague recollection but nothing I considered remarkable at the time.'
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I → ask → time
Five years earlier, Brand groped a woman within seconds of meeting her in a West End bar.
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Brand → grope → bar
Then, in 2005, he groped a stranger in a 'frenzied' and 'violent' attack at a radio station.
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he → grope → station
He also pinned a journalist against a wall and kissed her 'sloppily' while fondling her breasts in a cramped radio booth with three other men and a woman.
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He → pin → men
Chillingly, Brand's entourage merely watched.
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entourage → watch → ?
Whether the attack took place in a TV studio, radio station or bar, no one was prepared to stop him.
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one → take → him
As victims gave evidence, a pattern emerged of a sexual deviant prepared to pursue his own sexual gratification at any cost.
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pattern → give → cost
Pouncing on women he had often just met, Brand was not prepared to take no for an answer.
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Brand → pounce → answer
The swaggering sex predator fawned over by the Left is facing many years in jail, financial ruin and new charges
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predator → fawn → jail
From Burnham to Miliband, how the Left prostrated themselves before Brand the seedy Messiah
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Left → prostrate → Brand
Brand seemed to age 1,000 years in three weeks.
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Brand → seem → weeks
At the end he looked hollowed out, his wattage dimmed, his dandy highwayman swagger just a memory:
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swagger → look → end
I covered every day of the Russell Brand trial...
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I → cover → trial
no amount of prayers were ever going to save him
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amount → go → him
…and 4 more, not listed.
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