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Russell Brand has been jailed. Now we have the power to identify more sex attackers like him | Helena Kennedy
Workers in music, film, TV and theatre may not feel they can speak up about abuse, but the authority I lead is able to help them Helena Kennedy KC is a Labour peer and the chair of the Creative Industries Independent Standards Authority Russell Brand was sentenced to more than 10 years in jail yesterday, after being convicted of raping one woman and sexually assaulting three others. The details that emerged from his case have been shocking and at times deeply disturbing. We have witnessed the bravery of the women who came forward to seek justice – and the brazen and brutal sense of entitlement exhibited by a pampered star at the height of his fame. The Brand trial brought into sharp relief many of the victim-blaming attitudes I have spent my professional life as a criminal barrister trying to challenge. Old tropes emerged about victims not screaming out during rape and not reporting imme
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Workers in music, film, TV and theatre may not feel they can speak up about abuse, but the authority I lead is able to help them Helena Kennedy KC is a Labour peer and the chair of the Creative Industries Independent Standards Authority Russell Brand was sentenced to more than 10 years in jail yesterday, after being convicted of raping one woman and sexually assaulting three others. The details that emerged from his case have been shocking and at times deeply disturbing. We have witnessed the bravery of the women who came forward to seek justice – and the brazen and brutal sense of entitlement exhibited by a pampered star at the height of his fame. The Brand trial brought into sharp relief many of the victim-blaming attitudes I have spent my professional life as a criminal barrister trying to challenge. Old tropes emerged about victims not screaming out during rape and not reporting imme
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According to The Guardian’s source item, Russell Brand has been jailed. Now we have the power to identify more sex attackers like him | Helena Kennedy, Workers in music, film, TV and theatre may not feel they can speak up about abuse, but the authority I lead is able to help them Helena Kennedy KC is a Labour peer and the chair of the Creative Industries Independent Standards Authority Russell Brand was sentenced to more than 10 years in jail yesterday, after being convicted of raping one woman and sexually assaulting three others. The details that emerged from his case have been shocking and at times deeply disturbing. We have witnessed the bravery of the women who came forward to seek justice – and the brazen and brutal sense of entitlement exhibited by a pampered star at the height of his fame. The Brand trial brought into sharp relief many of the victim-blaming attitudes I have spent my professional life as a criminal barrister trying to challenge. Old tropes emerged about victims not screaming out during rape and not reporting imme
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