The rape conviction relates to an incident in 2009 at Brand's home in Hampstead, north London. The jury found he anally raped a woman who had met him days earlier at a comedy show at the Hammersmith Apollo. The complainant, then a 21-year-old fan, told the court she asked him to stop and he did not.

Brand was also convicted of sexually assaulting a woman at a radio station's offices in the mid-2000s. The complainant said it happened in a cramped space while his entourage watched without stepping in. A third conviction covers a 2004 incident at a Soho bar or party, where he grabbed a woman's breasts. The fourth involves a Channel 4 worker in 2009, who said Brand forced her to massage him at a recording studio under the threat that an advert would not be completed. The jury cleared him of raping a woman at the 1999 Labour Party conference in Bournemouth and of attempting to indecently assault a woman at MTV's London offices in 2001.

The trial ran three weeks. Brand faced seven charges involving six women, with alleged offences spanning 1999 to 2009. The jury retired on Tuesday afternoon and deliberated for more than six hours.

Brand testified and denied every charge, saying all contact was consensual. "Consent is fundamental, essential, necessary, and in many ways, more important than sex itself," he told the court. His barrister, Ian Winter KC, told jurors: "It is not criminal to treat women unkindly before, during or after sex." Winter argued the accusers' accounts were "thoroughly contaminated" by a 2023 documentary and by anonymous accusations made around it.

The prosecutor, Riel Karmy-Jones KC, said the women did not know one another. She pointed to Brand's celebrity status and the vulnerability of the complainants, and described him as predatory. Brand's wife attended the trial alongside him. Before the verdict he stood outside the dock and told her, "Laura, I love you."

The case grew out of that 2023 joint newspaper and television investigation, in which five women accused Brand of sexual assault, rape and abuse. Brand said at the time that his encounters were "absolutely always consensual" and that there was "another agenda at play." He was first charged in April 2025 over offences alleged between 1999 and 2005. In December 2025 prosecutors authorized two further charges involving two more women, bringing the total to seven.

London police said they are investigating two further rape allegations against Brand and expect more potential victims to come forward.