What happened
Russell Brand has been accused of sexual misconduct by six more women just days after the comedian was sentenced to more than a decade in prison for raping one woman and sexually assaulting three others.

The new allegations, reported by The Times, include claims that Brand had sex with a woman after she told him to stop, while another woman has alleged that he attempted to force her into a lavatory. The accusations concern incidents that occurred between 2005 and 2015. The women said they had previously been reluctant to approach police, but decided to speak publicly after the other allegations emerged.

Who said what
The new allegations “could not be reported during the trial of the former actor and comedian”, said Cameron Henderson in The Telegraph. Half of the new accusers were reportedly “attendees at his shows or gigs, where he would use his fame to pick up women”.

Brand has previously denied any wrongdoing while maintaining that his sexual relationships were consensual.

What next?
The Metropolitan Police said several people had contacted its officers during and after Brand’s trial, either providing information or making potential criminal allegations. Detectives are now assessing those reports.

What happened
Daniel Thomas – aka “Danny Tommo” – yesterday pleaded guilty to criminal damage after slashing a migrant dinghy in the Channel with a knife, a charge that he had previously denied. Only a French rescuer was aboard the vessel at the time of the incident.

The 37-year-old founder of Patriot Platform, the anti-immigration group that was behind the protests in Portsmouth in recent months, pleaded not guilty to a separate offense of failing to disclose his mobile phone’s pin number to the police.

Who said what
In his own video documenting the incident, Thomas said “this is what needs to happen”, the court had heard in a previous hearing. After damaging the boat, he then said: “this is not France, take them back.”

Thomas’s decision to admit his guilt “may come as a surprise to his supporters”, said The i Paper. His “ally” Tommy Robinson had been urging “millions of followers to donate to Thomas’s legal fees” on the premise of a not guilty plea.

What next?
Judge James Newton-Price KC set Thomas’s sentencing for 18 November and had him remanded into custody. He pointed out that Thomas “might have served his sentence” already given he has spent seven weeks behind bars.

Trinidad and Tobago has become the latest Caribbean nation to strike down laws criminalising same-sex intimacy after its highest court of appeal ruled that they violated fundamental human rights.

The decision by the London-based Judicial Committee of the Privy Council ends one activist’s “historic 10-year legal battle”, said The Guardian, to scrap the “colonial era laws” that still apply in more than 30 Commonwealth countries.

The Privy Council ruling also made it clear that adults in same-sex or heterosexual relationships “can no longer be prosecuted under Section 13 of the Sexual Offences Act for consensual anal intercourse in private”.

Trinidad-born LGBTQ+ activist Jason Jones (pictured above) has been fighting the “buggery law” – introduced in 1925 under British colonial rule – since 2016, “arguing that it violated his constitutional rights”, added The Guardian.

Similar laws have been repealed in British Overseas Territories in the Caribbean such as Anguilla and Montserrat, and overturned in countries including St Lucia, Barbados and Dominica.

But some nations in the region retain legislation criminalising “consensual same-sex relations between men”, said Attitude, including Grenada, Jamaica and St Vincent and the Grenadines.

After the ruling Jones said: “We may not see the benefits of this for 50 years. What a judgment says in a courtroom and what happens in your home and workplace are two entirely different things.”