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Russell Brand won't get conjugal visits with wife Laura while he serves his sentence
Russell Brand will not be getting private visits with his wife Laura in prison. Sources say conjugal visits simply do not exist in the UK.
Russell Brand is learning one more thing he will lose behind bars. He will not be getting conjugal visits.
People with direct knowledge of the situation say Brand "wouldn’t be allowed conjugal visits. This isn’t something which exists in the UK."
That means no private time with Laura Brand, his wife of nine years, for as long as he is locked up.
A decade-long sentence
On Monday a judge gave Brand a prison term of 10 and a half years. He is being held at HMP Wandsworth in South London. Jurors found him guilty of rape plus three sexual assault charges after a trial that ran four weeks.
At sentencing the judge tore into the comedian over how he treated the four women. The court heard he raped one woman, groped another woman's breasts, sexually assaulted a third against a wall and put his head in a fourth woman's groin.
The judge said the rape victim was left distraught and terrified. She also feared she had caught a sexually transmitted infection.
More allegations
His legal problems may not be over. London's Metropolitan Police confirmed last week that officers are looking into two more alleged rapes.
One of the women says Brand sent a car to collect her from school when she was 16. She claims he sexually assaulted her when they met.
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