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The Trial: Russell Brand
Kenneth Law: Poison In The Post
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In October 2021, David Parfett tragically found his son, Tom, dead in a hotel room in Surrey. Tom was just 22 years old.
David was determined to find the truth behind his son’s death. He followed Tom’s digital footprint and made a shocking discovery.
A man called Kenneth Law had set up an online company to exploit vulnerable people suffering from mental illness. He helped them take their own lives by sending them poison through the post.
David soon discovered that Tom wasn’t the only person to have received the lethal substance. Law had sent more than 1,200 packages to 40 countries around the world.
With the help of a journalist, David tracked down Law and confronted him about his crimes. Law was then arrested in Canada and formally admitted to causing the deaths of 73 victims from England and Wales. However, following a plea deal, Law pleaded guilty to 14 counts of aiding and abetting suicide in Canada.
In this episode, we hear from some of the victims’ families at the Supreme Court of Ontario, where a hearing took place last week. More than 50 relatives of Canadian and British victims gave incredibly moving statements to the judge. Caroline and Liz speak to David about tracking down Law and the impact his horrific actions had on his family.
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Presenter: Caroline Cheetham and Liz Hull
Guest: David Parfett
Editor: Chelsey Ranore
Creative Director: Caroline Cheetham
Assistant Producer: Harriet Muckle
Production Manager: Vittoria Cecchini
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12. The Trial: Russell Brand - They’ve 'Invented' the Allegations
20:28||Season 19, Ep. 12The jury today heard the words of Russell Brand for the first time. They were told that he was interviewed by police four times over two years and each time insisted he’d never had non-consensual sex with anyone. He admitted he’d led a promiscuous life and had sex with countless women in a variety of locations, including toilet cubicles. But he insisted the women had ‘invented and reimagined’ their consensual encounters after watching a ‘defamatory and fictitious’ documentary or reading ‘false’ allegations in a national newspaper.Subscribe via https://plus.thecrimedesk.com/brand?sc_promo=BRANDFollow us on TikTok @TheCrimeDesk or on Instagram @TheTrialPodEmail us thetrial@dailymail.comWhatsApp us +447796657512 (start your message with ‘Trial’)Presenters: Caroline Cheetham and Liz HullEditor: Tom James and Chelsey RanoreCreative Director: Caroline CheethamProducer: Chelsey RanoreAssistant Producer: Harriet MuckleProduction Manager: Vittoria CecchiniActor: Harry SandersA Daily Mail production. Seriously Popular
11. The Trial: Russell Brand - The "Peacock"
15:31||Season 19, Ep. 11The woman who was Russell Brand's PA at the height of his fame has said his sexual appetite was "insane." Helen Berger was giving evidence at his trial for several counts of sex offences. She said she often encountered Russell Brand having sex with different women - in his dressing room, in the bedroom of his flat in Camden, in the shower and in public toilets. She said even when he was working on a deadline he would ask for a break to "go and have sex." She said his behaviour was normalised by those around him and she quit after eight months. She said she never witnessed anything illegal but he treated women poorly.Subscribe via https://plus.thecrimedesk.com/brand?sc_promo=BRANDFollow us on TikTok @TheCrimeDesk or on Instagram @TheTrialPodEmail us thetrial@dailymail.comWhatsApp us +447796657512 (start your message with ‘Trial’)Presenters: Caroline Cheetham and Liz HullEditor: Tom James and Chelsey RanoreCreative Director: Caroline CheethamProducer: Chelsey RanoreAssistant Producer: Harriet MuckleProduction Manager: Vittoria CecchiniA Daily Mail production. Seriously Popular.
10. The Trial: Russell Brand - ‘It really f***ing hurt.’
11:19||Season 19, Ep. 10Day 10: The prosecution case is now nearing the end and several friends and relatives of the woman who alleges Russell Brand anally raped her are being called to give evidence or their statements read to the jury. One said she was crying, looked grey and ashen as she recounted what had happened at the comedian’s home. The friend said: ‘She looked ill, she said it really f***ing hurt.’ A nurse who later examined her also said she remembered the alleged victim saying she did not consent, while her father told her that she had been raped.Subscribe via https://plus.thecrimedesk.com/brand?sc_promo=BRANDFollow us on TikTok @TheCrimeDesk or on Instagram @TheTrialPodEmail us thetrial@dailymail.comWhatsApp us +447796657512 (start your message with ‘Trial’)Presenters: Caroline Cheetham and Liz HullEditor: Tom James and Chelsey RanoreCreative Director: Caroline CheethamProducer: Chelsey RanoreAssistant Producer: Harriet MuckleProduction Manager: Vittoria CecchiniActor: Harriet MuckleA Daily Mail production. Seriously Popular.
9. The Trial: Russell Brand - The Words of the Women
41:56||Season 19, Ep. 9Day 9: We've now heard from all six of the women in the case. Today Caroline and Liz have the words of the final three of them. One alleges Russell Brand attacked her in a frenzy, kissing and groping her without warning in front of several members of his entourage, before laughing when she told him to 'f*** off.' Another claims he 'hurt and harmed her' during an alleged rape after she met him backstage at a stand-up gig. She says he refused to stop when she cried out in pain. The final woman also alleges sexual assault. She complained to her bosses at Channel 4 when he demanded a massage during a Christmas project they were working on.Subscribe via https://plus.thecrimedesk.com/brand?sc_promo=BRANDFollow us on TikTok @TheCrimeDesk or on Instagram @TheTrialPodEmail us thetrial@dailymail.comWhatsApp us +447796657512 (start your message with ‘Trial’)Presenters: Caroline Cheetham and Liz HullEditor: Tom James and Chelsey RanoreCreative Director: Caroline CheethamProducer: Chelsey RanoreAssistant Producer: Harriet MuckleProduction Manager: Vittoria CecchiniActor: Gina Whitaker, Grace Haughton, Lucy Ryan, Alfie Mulcahy, Catherine Davies-Payne and Harry SandersA Daily Mail production. Seriously Popular.
8. The Trial: Russell Brand - ‘I felt like a piece of meat’
15:38||Season 19, Ep. 8Day 8: The final alleged victim of Russell Brand said she felt degraded “like a piece of meat” after he anally raped her. She said for years she blamed herself for willingly going to his house for sex. But she did not consent to what he did. She became an alcoholic and struggled to live with the guilt and shame. But she said part of her recovery was accepting what happened was not her fault. Russell Brand denies the charges.Subscribe via https://plus.thecrimedesk.com/brand?sc_promo=BRANDFollow us on TikTok @TheCrimeDesk or on Instagram @TheTrialPodEmail us thetrial@dailymail.comWhatsApp us +447796657512 (start your message with ‘Trial’)Presenters: Caroline Cheetham and Liz HullEditor: Tom James and Chelsey RanoreCreative Director: Caroline CheethamProducer: Chelsey RanoreAssistant Producer: Harriet MuckleProduction Manager: Vittoria CecchiniActor: Grace HaughtonA Daily Mail production. Seriously Popular.
7. The Trial: Russell Brand - “I was Mauled”
36:11||Season 19, Ep. 7It’s Day 7 of The Trial: Russell Brand and we’ve now heard from four of the six women at the case. They all accuse Russell Brand of some kind of sexual offences. Today we’ve got the words of a woman who says she was leapt on by Russell Brand when she was working for a radio station in the early 2000s when he was staring in the Big Brother spin off show. She said he leapt on her in a tiny room, kissed her and groped her, pinning her against a wall - and she said his entourage of three men and a woman did nothing to stop him. Another woman said Russell Brand orally raped her after dragging her into a toilet in a bar and another said Russell Brand put his head into groin during a filming project.Caroline and Liz have their words today.Subscribe via https://plus.thecrimedesk.com/brand?sc_promo=BRANDFollow us on TikTok @TheCrimeDesk or on Instagram @TheTrialPodEmail us thetrial@dailymail.comWhatsApp us +447796657512 (start your message with ‘Trial’)Presenters: Caroline Cheetham and Liz HullEditor: Tom James and Chelsey RanoreCreative Director: Caroline CheethamProducer: Chelsey RanoreAssistant Producer: Harriet MuckleProduction Manager: Vittoria CecchiniActors: Gina Whitaker, Lucy Ryan, Alfie Mulcahy, Beth Hale and Charlotte GillA Daily Mail production. Seriously Popular.
6. The Trial: Russell Brand - The "Attacks" in the Toilets
13:02||Season 19, Ep. 6It's Day 6 of Russell Brand's trial and we've now heard from three alleged victims. One of the women told the jury today that within 30 seconds of meeting him in a bar in 2004, Russell Brand grabbed her breasts, and then dragged her into the toilet where he orally raped her. The woman said she was in shock and in a daze after the alleged attack but afterwards Russell Brand simply suggested they swap numbers. We've also now heard from another woman who said that in 2001 Russell Brand also tried to drag her into the toilets after they met at MTV where she was working. She said he was forceful and he had a "wild look in his eye." She said he was trying to assault her but she managed to get away.Subscribe now. Follow us on TikTok @TheCrimeDesk or on Instagram @TheTrialPodEmail us thetrial@dailymail.comWhatsApp us +447796657512 (start your message with ‘Trial’)Presenters: Caroline Cheetham and Liz HullEditor: Tom James and Chelsey RanoreProducer: Chelsey RanoreAssistant Producer: Harriet MuckleProduction Manager: Vittoria CecchiniCreative Director: Caroline CheethamExecutive Producer: Jamie East
5. The Trial: Russell Brand - A "monster"
29:42||Season 19, Ep. 5What really happened at the Labour Party Conference in 1999? A woman who says she was the victim of a sex attack there, claims he went from being charming and chatty to monstrous in a matter of hours."He wanted sex" she said "and I was there." She told her story to the jury sitting on his trial, and when she was challenged by Russell Brand's barrister that she had consented to sex, but regretted her decision later, she said: "I did not consent to rape."Caroline and Liz have her words, plus the evidence of Russell Brand's friend who said he used to line his fans up against a wall - choose one and take her for sex in a toilet. Ten minutes later he'd come back, choose another one and "repeat."Subscribe via plus.thecrimedesk.com/brand?sc_promo=BRANDFollow us on TikTok @TheCrimeDesk or on Instagram @TheTrialPodEmail us thetrial@dailymail.comWhatsApp us +447796657512 (start your message with ‘Trial’)Presenters: Caroline Cheetham and Liz HullEditor: Tom James and Chelsey RanoreCreative Director: Caroline CheethamProducer: Chelsey RanoreAssistant Producer: Harriet MuckleProduction Manager: Vittoria CecchiniExecutive Producer: Jamie East
4. The Trial: Russell Brand - "He raped me."
13:53||Season 19, Ep. 4One of the women who claims she was raped by Russell Brand in 1999 today spoke about what she says happened to her. She said he attacked her in a hotel room after she met him at the Labour Party Conference in Bournemouth. She told the jury at Southwark Crown Court that he pulled her onto a bed, pressed himself on top of her, ripped her clothes down and raped her. She said she felt dirty, shocked and stupid, and for over 20 years she blocked it from her mind until she came forward to report it to the police in 2023. Caroline and Liz were in court as the evidence unfolded.Subscribe via https://plus.thecrimedesk.com/brand?sc_promo=BRANDFollow us on TikTok @TheCrimeDesk or on Instagram @TheTrialPodEmail us thetrial@dailymail.comWhatsApp us +447796657512 (start your message with ‘Trial’)Presenters: Caroline Cheetham and Liz HullEditor: Tom James and Chelsey RanoreCreative Director: Caroline CheethamProducer: Chelsey RanoreAssistant Producer: Harriet MuckleProduction Manager: Vittoria CecchiniA Daily Mail production. Seriously Popular.