Russell Brand trial: Prosecutor calls actor ‘ruthless’ and ‘sexual predator’

Actor and comedian Russell Brand is on trial, accused of rape and sexual assault.Read more trending newsBrand has pleaded not guilty to three counts of rape, three counts of sexual assault, and one count of indecent assault in a case involving six women and allegations dating from 1999 to 2009, The Associated Press reported. He is free on bail.The prosecutor said in court that the women, who do not know each other, were assaulted in “a hotel room, workplaces, a toilet cubicle in a bar and at his home address,” and that he had an “indiscriminate and voracious” desire and that “women were simply a means to an end.”Attorney Riel Karmy-Jones said that he was “a flirt with a huge sexual appetite — childlike in his expectation that his every desire should be met.”She told the jury, “He is ruthless, he was calculating, he was manipulative. And, the prosecution say, he was a sexual predator.”The BBC noted that he “remained incredibly still in court. In the dock he sat upright and didn’t fidget