Russell Brand's wife faces difficult decision as sex fiend is 'moved into main wing'

Russell Brand's young family faces a difficult decision over whether to relocate back to the UK or remain in America as he begins his 10-and-a-half year sentence for rape and sexual assault. Prior to the trial, Brand had been living in Florida with his family. The disgraced former comedian, 51, even threw a beach party before the family flew back to Britain for the court case in October, with those close to him reportedly confident he would walk free. But following his lengthy sentence, he was moved to a main wing at HMP Wandsworth in southwest London, and may be transferred to another jail known informally as Monster Mansion. His wife Laura must now decide whether to support him in England. A prison insider said: "Wakefield is quite literally known as Monster Mansion - it is the place where Britain's most vile monsters are holed up. "We are talking brutal crimes - murder, rape, sex assaults. Some against children. Three quarters of the inmates in Wakefield are in for sexually assaulting people. It houses the worst of the worst, and probably is not a place where you'd want to take children to be honest." They added: "It is the same for all prisoners with kids at home of course, it is an individual decision on whether you want your children in that environment. But if they want regular face to face access to their dad, it may mean that they have to relocate." Convicted rapist Brand had uprooted his wife and their three young children from Oxfordshire, England, to Santa Rosa Beach, Florida, in late 2024, while retaining their English home, reports the Daily Star. It has been suggested that Laura and her three children are now weighing up a permanent return to their property in Henley-on-Thames, Oxfordshire, and enrolling the children into the British way of life. The source added: "Children are allowed in Wakefield, they obviously have to be with an adult, and they still have to be listed as an approved contact before being allowed in. "Laura will have to provide ID like a birth certificate or passport of the children to make them official visitors, and they will all have to be searched if they choose to have a face to face visit, so it is not an overly nice experience. "They will all be patted down and could even be sniffed by drug detection dogs. It is a lot. But it is necessary and part of this new world they are now having to navigate."