British comedian Russell Brand was sentenced to 10.5 years in prison for rape and sexual violence. The decision was made by Southwark Crown Court in London. Brand was sentenced to nine years in Lyons Prison, to be served consecutively with three other convictions: nine months on a third charge of assaulting a woman he grabbed by the chest in a London bar in 2004; Eight months on a fifth charge of assaulting a woman at the Choice FM studios in London in 2004 or 2005 when he grabbed her face and kissed her breast and then touched her, eight months on a fifth count of assaulting a channel fighter, while working with his head on December 4, 2009 unharmed, when he works with him. All three sentences will be served simultaneously, but consistently with the rape sentence. The total sentence is 10 years and six months. Tag: @tvrain.