English comedian, actor, and media personality Russell Brand has been sentenced to 10 years and six months in prison following one count of r**e and three counts of s****l assault convictions.Russell Brand’s parents are Ronald Henry Brand and Barbara Elizabeth Nichols. His father is now defending him and questioning the narrative surrounding the case. On Monday, reporters asked Ronald Henry Brand outside the Southwark Crown Court in London whether he had any message for the women who spoke against his son.“The victim? What, Russell? The girls, you mean, who chased him and harassed him — is that what you mean?" Ronald, who is in his 80s, asked.Russell Brand’s father claimed that he didn’t care about the jury’s verdict and that he didn’t believe in the justice system based on “what I just watched.” He also hinted that it was “possible” that the jury was corrupt. Ronald added that his son was “strong” and would manage life behind bars and that Russell’s wife, Laura Gallacher, was “strong as well.”Earlier on November 5, he told the BBC following his son’s conviction that he was “bemused and shocked.”“I just didn't expect this. It's wrong. It's devastating,” Ronald Henry added.More about Russell Brand’s parentsRussell Brand, 51, is the only child of Barbara Elizabeth Nichols and Ronald Henry Brand and was born at Orsett Hospital in Grays, Essex, England. Not much is known about his dad except that he was a photographer. When Russell was only 6 months old, his parents separated and he was raised by a single mother.When Russell Brand was 8 or 9 years old, Barbara was diagnosed with cancer, and he lived with relatives while she underwent treatment. At 16, the now-disgraced comedian left home after a series of disagreements with his mother’s boyfriend. In 2006, he told The Observer:“I loved my mum madly, but I had a lot of prohibiting, inhibiting things around. My feeling about my childhood was that it was lonely and difficult.”In his 2007 memoir My Booky Wook, Russell has claimed to have shared a “strange” relationship with his “absent and unreliable” father, whom he met on and off.When he was 16, his dad took him to see prostitutes on a Thailand trip and taught him how to be a “man.” Later, at a Hong Kong hotel, Ronald reportedly hired three prostitutes, one for his son and two for himself while he had s*x in the next bed. During another stay at the Pontins British holiday resort, a girl invited him to bed as her mother was having relations with Russell’s father.“During the rest of that holiday I f**ked loads more prostitutes and never wore a c****m… my sexuality had morphed forever from bewildered innocence into something more complex and rapacious,” Brand wrote in his book.The comedian even held his father accountable for his “voracious” s****l appetite and blamed him for introducing him to adult movies and magazines.The Metropolitan Police began investigating Russell Brand in 2023 after receiving several allegations from multiple women amid reports of s****l misconduct in Channel 4’s documentary Dispatches and The Sunday Times. Following the allegations, Ronald told reporters at the time that they were “unproven” and asked:“Is this seriously the most important thing happening in this world?”In a follow-up Facebook post, Brand Sr. added:“The Russell Brand vendetta: Like a man who owns an orchard being accused of stealing an apple?”In April 2025, Russell was charged with r**e and s****l assault, alleged to have occurred over several years, starting in 1999. At the time, he denied all allegations and claimed all his s****l encounters have been “absolutely always consensual.”Throughout his four-week jury trial, Brand continued to maintain his innocence. He told the court in his October 28 testimony:“Not guilty is my plea in every single case.”On November 5, he was found guilty of four out of seven charges and was acquitted on the other three. On Monday, Russell Brand was sentenced to more than a decade in HMP Wandsworth, London. Judge Joel Bennathan called him a “remorseless s****l predator” with a "staggering arrogance" during the hearing.Brand’s wife, Laura Gallacher, 39, is an author, blogger, illustrator, entrepreneur, and former restaurateur. They share three children, two daughters and a son, and have been married since 2017.The Joy Journal founder has been supportive of her husband throughout the trial. In October, she told the jury that Russell Brand was an “amazingly attentive husband” and a “wonderful father,” and that she loved him “very much.”According to TMZ, he told her, “We’ll be okay,” while he was being escorted out of the courtroom on November 5. On Monday, before the sentencing, Russell Brand said, “I love you,” to his wife.