Russell Brand has ‘already received abuse’ from other prisoners in jail

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He's had anything but a warm welcome.

Fellow inmates are already making prison life difficult for convicted rapist Russell Brand, it’s been claimed.

On Monday, Brand was sent down for 10 years and six months, a sentence he’ll serve approximately seven years of before serving the rest on licence.

The former comedian and actor, 51, was found guilty on one count of rape and three counts of sexual assault committed between 2004 and 2009, with a further eight women since coming forward to accuse him of sexual abuse and predatory behaviour.

Brand always denied any wrongdoing, insisting that his sexual relationships were ‘consensual’.

However, when sentencing him at Southwark Crown Court, Mr Justice Bennathan slammed the disgraced star’s ‘staggering arrogance’ and said his status ‘protected him’ from repercussions during his celebrity heyday.

And it appears Brand also started his imprisonment with such ‘arrogance’, as it’s been reported that, when he arrived at HMP Wandsworth, he ‘came floating in almost as though he was the Messiah’.

A prison source told the Daily Mail that there was ‘this air of superiority about him’, but it was ‘immediately’ clear he was putting on ‘an act’.

‘He was incredibly pale, almost as though he was going to be sick,’ the source said.

‘Whatever confidence he was trying to project, you could see the fear beneath it.’

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