Russell Brand’s guilty verdict last week meant that a jail sentence was inevitable and the 51-year-old has now been given 10 and a half years in prison.

Nine years of the prison sentence was for the rape charge, with the remaining year and a half covering the three sexual assault offences.

The judge read out the charges and the sentence before suggesting that Brand is likely to serve two-thirds of the sentence.

Brand was transported to Southwark Crown Court in a white van on Monday morning following a weekend being kept behind bars at HMP Wandsworth.

Last Thursday, the comedian was found guilty of sexually assaulting a woman whose breasts he grabbed at a bar in London in 2004. Another guilty charge involved sexually assaulting a woman at the Choice FM studios in London in either 2004 or 2005.

On that case, he was found guilty of grabbing her face and kissing her before touching her breasts and bottom.…