And so it came to pass that Russell Brand took to the stand at his rape and sexual assault trial in London.
Standing tall in the witness box, wearing a navy suit and a white wing-collared shirt adorned with a complicated neckerchief, here he was at last, the dandy highwayman ready to stand and deliver his defence.
In the hours that followed Brand talked of the joys of ‘canoodling and kissing’, of how he believed that sexual consent was ‘fundamental, essential, necessary and in many ways more important than sex itself’, he described himself as the kind of considerate lover whose behaviour
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