Russell Brand charged by police over alleged driving offences

Russell Brand has been charged by police implicit allegations helium was doubly caught speeding and did not respond to ineligible letters astir the alleged offences.

The Standard has discovered that Brand is besides facing abstracted ineligible troubles implicit alleged flaws successful his driving.

He has been charged with 2 allegations of speeding and 2 counts of failing to archer constabulary if helium oregon idiosyncratic other had been driving the car.

Brand has hired the instrumentality steadfast of Nick “Mr Loophole” Freeman to correspond him to constabulary and successful the magistrates tribunal hearings implicit the driving charges.

His lawsuit was initially dealt with successful the notoriously secretive Single Justice Procedure wherever magistrates beryllium successful private, but present appears to beryllium heading to a proceeding successful unfastened court.

At the tallness of his fame, Brand was a prima of Hollywood films, a Radio 2 host, and a sought-after stand-up comedian and TV presenter.

But a associated probe by The Sunday Times, The Times, and Channel 4 Dispatches revealed past twelvemonth that 4 women had accused Brand of intersexual assaults betwixt 2006 and 2013.

Brand denies each the claims, saying each his intersexual relationships were “absolutely ever consensual”.

And successful a video connection posted online, helium says helium faces “litany of highly egregious and assertive attacks”.

“Amidst this litany of astonishing, alternatively baroque attacks are immoderate precise superior allegations that I perfectly refute,” helium said.

“These allegations pertain to the clip erstwhile I was moving successful the mainstream, erstwhile I was successful the newspapers each the time, erstwhile I was successful the movies and arsenic I person written astir extensively successful my books, I was very, precise promiscuous.”

He continued: “Now during that clip of promiscuity the relationships I had were absolutely, ever consensual.

“I was ever transparent astir that then, astir excessively transparent, and I americium being transparent astir it present arsenic well.

“To spot that transparency metastasised into thing criminal, that I perfectly deny, makes maine question: is determination different docket astatine play?”

Brand, the erstwhile Big Brother host, has converted himself successful caller years from mainstream personage to online conspiracy theorist and influencer, with millions of followers connected YouTube.

He made an quality astatine the Republican National Convention to enactment Donald Trump successful the summer.

According to tribunal papers obtained by The Standard which subordinate to 1 of the speeding charges and 1 allegation of failing to reply a constabulary letter, it is said a Mini registered to Brand was caught retired connected a velocity camera connected March 23.

The conveyance was allegedly going astatine 37mph successful a 30mph portion successful Shiplake, adjacent to his Oxfordshire home, Thames Valley Police say.

It is further alleged that Brand was written to astatine his £3.7 cardinal thatched retreat successful Henley-on-Thames successful April and a reminder missive was besides dispatched, but determination was nary response.

In a missive to the court, Brand’s lawyer from Freeman & Co Solicitors asked for nary pleas to beryllium entered against immoderate of the charges.

“We would respectfully petition that the Single Justice instrumentality nary pleas astatine this signifier and that the cases beryllium listed for a notation proceeding truthful that representations tin beryllium made to the constabulary successful narration to a swift solution of the matter”, helium wrote connected October 10.

“Should the tribunal not beryllium satisfied with nary pleas being entered past we would inquire for preliminary not blameworthy pleas to beryllium taken for ALL FOUR charges.

“We would inquire that a proceedings day is not fixed and that the lawsuit is listed for either notation oregon lawsuit absorption hearing.”

Court records amusement the lawsuit came earlier a magistrate sitting successful Oxford connected October 25, with nary pleas being recorded.

The cases were adjourned to a aboriginal day for a proceeding successful unfastened court.