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Met Police investigate several reports on Russell Brand following his conviction
The officer who led the investigation into Russell Brand has said that the Metropolitan Police have received "several reports during the trial and since the trial" following the disgraced comedian's conviction and sentence.
Speaking to BBC Breakfast on Tuesday, Det Supt Andy Furphy said that officers were in the "process of triaging" those reports and were "looking at exactly what we've got, whether they're information that points to behaviour or whether they could constitute a criminal offence, so our work isn't done."
Brand is already being investigated over rape allegations from two more women. He has been interviewed under caution in connection to those allegations.
On Monday, he was sentenced to 10 years and six months in prison, after being convicted of rape and sexual assault.
In his sentencing remarks, judge Joel Bennathan described Brand as a "sexual predator" and criticised his "staggering arrogance".
The 51-year-old was sentenced to nine years for rape, with an additional 18 months, nine months and eight months for three counts of sexual assault. The latter sentences are to run concurrently.
He was found guilty of the charges involving four women between 2004 and 2009.
Asked by BBC Breakfast how the women in the case who gave evidence in the trial were coping, Furphy said: "Some have found it deeply distressing because of the amount of media attention wrapped around it".
"Even Russell Brand himself before and during trial was putting material online, but we continue to support them."
Furphy noted how the conviction "could not have been achieved" without their "bravery, their courage, their resilience throughout the whole criminal justice process".