Russell Brand is due in court over allegations he was twice caught speeding and failed to respond to police letters about the alleged offences. The comedian and actor, 49, faces claims he was speeding on the motorway and also broke a 30mph limit on a stretch of residential road.
His case is listed at High Wycombe magistrates court on Thursday, with Brand having hired the firm of Nick ‘Mr Loophole’ Freeman to represent him in the legal proceedings. Separately, Brand is under investigation by the Metropolitan Police over allegations of sex crimes made against him by multiple women.
A file on the complaints has been handed to the Crown Prosecution Service to determine if he should face charges. The Standard first reported the driving offences case in November last year, when prosecutions were brought through the Single Justice Procedure.
He has been charged with two allegations of speeding and two counts of failing to tell police if he or someone else had been driving the car. At the height of his fame, Brand was a star of Hollywood films, a Radio 2 host, and a sought-after stand-up comedian and TV presenter.
But a joint investigation by The Sunday Times, The Times, and Channel 4 Dispatches revealed last year that four women had accused Brand of sexual assaults between 2006 and 2013. Brand denies all the claims, saying all his sexual relationships were “absolutely always consensual”.
