Russell Brand: Met Police receives number of sex offence allegations following reports about comedian

Russell Brand has denied all allegations against him as the Metropolitan Police said it had received a number of sex offence allegations

​The Metropolitan Police has received a number of sex offence allegations following news reports about Russell Brand.

The comedian and actor has strongly denied accusations made by four women in an investigation by The Sunday Times, The Times and Channel 4's Dispatches.

The force said yesterday it had since received a "number of allegations of sexual offences in London" as well as elsewhere in the country.

The Met Police said no arrests had yet been made as it confirmed a number of sex offence allegations had been made following reports about Russell Brand. Picture: Getty.

In a short statement, police said all allegations were non-recent and there had been no arrests.

Detective Superintendent Andy Furphy, from the Met's Central Specialist Crime Command, said: "We continue to encourage anyone who believes they may have been a victim of a sexual offence, no matter how long ago it was, to contact us.

"We understand it can feel like a difficult step to take and I want to reassure that we have a team of specialist officers available to advise and support."

The force said it would be offering specialist support to all of the women who have made allegations.

On Saturday, Brand thanked his supporters for "questioning" the allegations of rape and sexual assault made against him.

In the three-minute clip, posted on YouTube, Rumble and X, he said the week since the claims were published had been "extraordinary and distressing".

Shortly after the Met issued its short statement, Brand made his first return to his regular Rumble show since the allegations were made against him.

On the Dispatches documentary, Brand was accused of rape, assault and emotional abuse between 2006 and 2013, when he was at the height of his fame working for the BBC, Channel 4 and starring in Hollywood films.

The Met previously said it had received an allegation of sexual assault in Soho, central London, in 2003, which emerged as the remaining live shows for his Bipolarisation tour were postponed.

During his regular Rumble show on Monday, Brand said he would talk about the "collusion between big tech and Government and an apparent concerted effort by legacy media ... to silence independent media voices".

He said: "Obviously, it's difficult for me to be entirely objective given the events of the last week, but that's what we must try to do."

Brand said he would return to his regular show on Rumble – an online video platform that refused to follow YouTube in blocking the comedian from earning advertising revenue on its site.

He described the streaming site as having made a "clear commitment to free speech".

The Met Police statement was issued after comedian Cole Parker said over the weekend that Brand had a “reputation” for becoming “angry or a bit nasty” when his sexual advances were rejected.

Parker, who worked with Brand between 2000 and 2002, claimed that models were often warned by their agents about the comedian.

“There would have been plenty of people who would have been happy to get themselves involved in a dalliance with him, he didn’t have to go with people who were reluctant to do so,” Parker said.