Moment Russell Brand was interviewed under caution by Met Police

This is the moment Russell Brand was quizzed under caution by detectives after being arrested on suspicion of a number of rapes and sex assaults. The disgraced entertainer, 51, was interviewed on video by police a total of four times, including twice in November 2023, once in December 2023 and once in January 2024. But officers did not encounter the swaggering star they had previously seen on TV and film. The release of the video comes as Brand was found guilty one rape and three counts of sexual assault at Southwark Crown Court today. He was cleared of two further charges of rape and one allegation of attempted indecent assault. Follow our live coverage of the case from Southwark Crown Court Following today's verdict, Detective Superintendent Andy Furphy, of the Metropolitan Police, said: "Throughout this whole investigation we've seen different versions of Russell Brand. In his first interview he was quite quiet, withdrawn somewhat. But by the end of the fourth interview he was more familiar with what was going on. "I think we saw a bit of that at court as well, we saw two different Russell Brands. We saw his public persona outside the court, engaging with the press, walking quite slowly with his partner and the people he was with, but in court we saw a different Russell Brand, very quiet, very still. "When he gave his evidence it started off quite loud and then it just got quieter and quieter. I think he was reminded to speak up at times. He was quite withdrawn and not the person you see on TV." Brand gave prepared statements denying wrongdoing during his police interviews, but refused to answer any questions, replying only "no comment". Giving legal directions to the jury on Friday, the judge said: “This means that he did not tell the police the accounts he now relies on in respect of the three rape allegations.” The judge said Brand had not told the police aspects of his defence case, such as claiming he had consensual sex with a woman at the Labour Party conference and suggesting a TV worker had “willingly gone into a toilet with him, but the state of the room led them to leave” before sex happened. He added: “These failures to set out his case may harm his defence if you conclude that he failed to mention these facts in interview because he did not have an answer at the time of interview, he had no answer that he then believed would stand up to questioning, or he has invented this account after the interview." Speaking about Brand's demeanour during the interviews, a source said: "On the first occasion, he was very nervous and quite quiet. As he got more familiar with [the investigating team] and the procedures, he became more relaxed. "He was co-operative and turned up with his legal team. I would say he wasn't the Russell Brand you see on the television. He was quieter and calmer. Each time he gave a prepared statement, followed by no comment from that point forward." Asked if his fame played a part in his offending, the source added: "I would say bar, the first one, because that was 1999 before he was famous, I would say his celebrity status definitely featured in part of his offending. "As he's obviously become more famous, he's got more and more confident, almost more outrageous as he's gone on. And I think that has definitely played into the power imbalance and he's taken advantage completely of his position. and his outrageousness to pursue women." Despite his hesitancy to speak to police during formal interviews, Brand did make a number of high-profile statements on his own social media channels and gave interviews with broadcasters Piers Morgan and Megyn Kelly. Asked how the interviews affected his victims, a source said: "These women were brave enough to come to police and tell us their allegations and they just want to get on with their daily lives. Obviously it's upsetting to them to put the telly on, or look at a newspaper, or go on social media, and see Russell Brand's popping up. "Especially on Piers Morgan. talking about the coming trial and the offences and obviously, it's upsetting to them. They're seeing it, they're reliving it and also, he's got his platform to kind of deny it and they don't have that chance. It's upsetting to the victims. "When you report offences of this nature, you really are giving away the most at times personal information about your life and it's a really big decision to make that report regardless. And so to have somebody like Russell Brand, who is so famous and all of that attention then piled in, I think it just adds to the pressure." Another source added: "The fact that he can go on Piers Morgan or Megyn Kelly and potentially talk about the case arguably adds a slight dimension in terms of whether or not it might have an effect on the victims, but I don't think it fundamentally changes what we have to do. It hasn't changed how we approach the case as a whole... it doesn't fundamentally change how we proceed at all." Brand will be sentenced on Monday.