Claims extracted
29
sentences that state something as happening or true
Uncertain
14%
4 of 29 hedged
("reportedly", "may", "according to")
Leaning
not political
takes no side on a contested political question
Publisher signals
68/100
BBC News's corrections and
hedging, across everything collected from it. Not a measure of accuracy.
Outlets on this story
110
Crime & Law
Same framing elsewhere
1
articles that frame the event the way this one does
- Published
Warning - this report contains graphic content
asserted
report → publish → content
A woman who claims Russell Brand sexually assaulted her has described the alleged attack as "frenzied" and "violent".
uncertain
Brand → claim → attack
Brand, 51, faces seven charges in the trial - three counts of rape, three charges of sexual assault and one of indecent assault.
asserted
Brand → face → assault
The allegations, made by six female complainants, span a 10-year period between 1999 and 2009.
asserted
allegations → make → 1999
He denies the charges.
asserted
He → deny → charges
On Tuesday, the jury heard from the fourth complainant in the trial, who alleges Brand sexually assaulted her at the Choice FM radio studios in central London in the mid-2000s.
asserted
Brand → hear → mid-2000s
She said she came out of a small room in the building to find Brand outside.
asserted
she → say → Brand
"He said 'aye aye'," she told the jury, "he grabbed me by my face, started to kiss me, and when he was kissing me he started pushing me - his body against me."
The woman continued: "He was kissing me, it was very frenzied.
asserted
it → say → me
There was no time for me to even understand what was going on.
asserted
what → be → ?
"He was running his hands over my body and I had my back against the wall at that point."
asserted
I → run → point
From behind a blue screen, the woman described the kiss as "sloppy" and "very, very rough", when asked by the prosecution barrister about the alleged attack.
"His hands at the same time were all over me," she said.
asserted
she → describe → me
"He touched my bum, my breasts, his body was pressed up against me."
asserted
body → touch → me
The woman said she pushed him off and swore at him.
asserted
she → say → him
She said there were several people with him who she claims didn't say anything about what happened after the alleged assault.
uncertain
what → say → assault
The woman - now in her 50s - said she had never met Brand before and that she believed he'd been in the building because he was on Channel 4 show Big Brother's Big Mouth.
asserted
he → say → show
She told the jury: "His whole body was pressed against me - the kisses were hard and sloppy and going down my neck.
"
asserted
kisses → tell → neck
His hands were moving so much - the reason I used the word frenzied was because it was violent.
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it → move → word
He just wasn't stopping."
asserted
He → stop → ?
Said she felt "dirty" after the encounter and "never told anybody", adding: "I felt shocked and stunned, shaken."
asserted
I → say → anybody
When questioned by Brand's barrister on why none of the people who may have seen what happened did not raise concerns, the woman said: "It was not the present-day environment."
uncertain
It → question → concerns
"On the day it happened - and I ask myself this question - why I didn't share it," she said.
asserted
she → happen → it
"It wasn't the culture where something happened to you and you tell people."
asserted
you → happen → people
Asked by the defence barrister why she did not go to the police, the woman said: "I would have thought about a few things.
asserted
I → ask → things
Who would have believed me?
asserted
Who → believe → me
"I could lose my job and I had a mortgage to pay," she said, adding that she "buried it for so long".
uncertain
she → lose → it
The woman said she came forward with the allegation after watching a documentary on television about the TV star and his alleged behaviour.
asserted
she → say → star
Brand denies all the charges and has pleaded not guilty.
asserted
Brand → deny → charges
He has said that any sexual contact if it happened, would have been consensual.
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it → say → ?
The trial continues.
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trial → continue → ?
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