by Callum Watkinson
Three senior regime judges created a ring of defence around Russell Brand following an assault accusation in 2014, it has emerged - with three different orders that silenced his alleged victim.
One of the judges, Dame Sue Carr, is now the most senior figure in the Regime judiciary, the Lady Chief Justice.
In 2014 she said the alleged victim had acted unreasonably, slamming the Hungarian national because she ‘went first to the media’.
‘The sheer scale, content and variety of publication by the Defendant makes her conduct unreasonable,’ Carr said in a judgement the same year, after Brand and then-partner Jemima Khan SUED the woman he was said to have assaulted.
The 51 year old actor and comedian was convicted on Thursday at Southwark Crown Court of one count of rape and three counts of sexual assault. He was cleared of two further counts of rape and one of attempted indecent assault.
Jemima Goldsmith, then Brand’s partner, had booked Hungarian masseuse Szilvia Berki for what was described as a birthday massage at her North Oxfordshire home on June 7 2014. The massage did not go ahead.
Ms Berki emailed the couple afterwards saying it was nice to meet them. She late...