BREAKING: Russell Brand sentenced to 10.5 years in prison

>> Dana: RUSSELL BRAND IN COURT. THIS MORNING AFTER HE WAS FOUND. GUILTY LAST WEEK OF ONE COUNT OF. RAPE AND THREE COUNTS OF SEXUAL. ASSAULT. THE JUDGE JUST READ OUT THE. SENTENCE. WATCH. >> I PASS THE SENTENCE OF. IMPRISONMENT FOR NINE MONTHS FOR. COUNT THREE, 18 MONTHS FOR COUNT.

FIVE, REDUCED FROM TWO YEARS TO. ALLOW FOR FATALITY AND EIGHT. MONTHS FOR COUNT SEVEN. THOSE SENTENCES ARE ALL. CONCURRENT TO ONE ANOTHER TO. FURTHER ALLOW FOR TOTALITY BUT. CONSECUTIVE TO THE SENTENCE OF. RAPE. THE SENTENCE I PASS ON COUNT. SIX, RAPE, IS NINE YEARS IN. PRISON. THE TOTAL SENTENCE IS ONE OF TEN. YEARS SIX MONTHS. A FEW DAYS YOU HAVE ALREADY. SERVED WILL COUNT. YOU WILL SERVE 2/3 OF THAT.

SENTENCE, THEN BE RELEASED ON. LICENSE AND WILL BE LIABLE TO BE. RECALLED INTO CUSTODY IF YOU. BREACH ITS TERMS. ON YOUR RELEASE YOU WILL ALSO BE. INDEFINITELY SUBJECT TO THE. NOTIFICATION OF CRIMES UNDER. SEXUAL OFFENSES ACT 2003. >> Dana: GREG PALKOT HAS THIS. BREAKING NEWS OUTSIDE THE COURT. IN LONDON. GOOD MORNING. >> WE ARE OUTSIDE THE SUFFOLK.

CROWN COURT. THE SENTENCING IN THE CASE OF. RUSSELL BRAND, TELEVISION STAR, ACTOR, TUBE MEISTER AND. CONVICTED RAPIST. WHAT WE HAVE HEARD FROM THE. JUDGE, DANA, WAS IN THE LOWER. RANGE OF WHAT THE PROSECUTION. HAD BEEN ASKING FOR. FOR EXAMPLE, IN THE RAPE CHARGE, THE RAPE CONVICTION, THE. PROSECUTION WAS ASKING FOR TEN. TO 15 YEARS. THE JUDGE GAVE NINE YEARS.

IN EACH OF THE THREE SEXUAL. ASSAULT CHARGES CONVICTIONS. AGAIN THE PROSECUTION ASKING FOR. ONE TO FOUR YEARS AND IN EACH. CASE IT WAS AROUND THAT TIME, TWO CASES BELOW THE ONE YEAR. MINIMUM. ANOTHER CASE ABOVE THE ONE YEAR. MINIMUM. THESE SENTENCES WILL NOT BE. SERVED CONCURRENTLY BUT SERVED. ONE ON TOP OF ANOTHER. 10 1/2 YEARS IS A PRETTY STRONG.

STATEMENT COMING FROM THE JUDGE. WE ALSO HEARD SOME VERY STRONG. STATEMENTS, WORDS COMING FROM. THE JUDGE. HE CALLED THE RUSSELL BRAND THE. CONVICTED RAPIST EXHIBITING. STAGGERING ARROGANCE AND HIS. ENTOURAGE INDULGED HIS BEHAVIOR. AND CALLED HIM A SEXUAL. PREDATOR. IT RECAPS FOUR CONVICTIONS.

INVOLVING INCIDENTS FROM 2004 TO. 2009. WE HEARD FROM AT LEAST ONE OF. THE VICTIMS TODAY. SHE TALKED ABOUT THE RAPE. VICTIM, IN FACT, WE FELT LIKE. DAMAGED GOODS, SHE SAYS. THE TRAUMA IS NEVER ENDING, SHE. SAID. THE LAWYER FOR THESE VICTIMS. TALKED ABOUT SEVERE AND. PSYCHOLOGICAL HARM. WE ALSO HEARD FROM BRAND'S. LAWYER, TOO. HE WAS BEGGING FOR MERCY FOR HIS. CLIENT TALKING ABOUT TOTAL. DEVASTATION, TALKING ABOUT RAPE. AS BEING A MOMENTARY FAILURE AND.

THAT HE WAS INNOCENT. AGAIN THE JUDGE BUYING THIS TO A. CERTAIN EXTENT BUT NOT TOO FAR. AT ALL. WHY WE ARE SEEING, DANA, THIS. SLIGHT LOWERING OR THE LOWER END. OF THE SENTENCING AMOUNTS IS. BECAUSE WHAT HE DESCRIBES AS. MITIGATING EVIDENCE. THAT IS THAT IT WAS TEN, 15, 20. YEARS AGO IN THAT TIME HE NOTES. THAT SOME OF BRAND'S BEHAVIOR. HAS BEEN POSITIVE REGARDING. REHABILITATION OF DRUG ADDICTS.

HE WAS A VICTIM OF DRUG. ADDICTION AS WELL AS SEXUAL. ADDICTION. A LANDMARK CASE THAT LASTED FOUR. WEEKS, THE JURY, WHICH HANDED. DOWN THESE CONVICTIONS EIGHT MEN. AND FOUR WOMEN. WE HEARD FROM THE PRIME MINISTER. ANDY BURNHAM TODAY. HE HOPES WHAT HAPPENED TODAY AND. HAPPENED IN THE LAST FOUR WEEKS. WITH THE VICTIMS COMING FORWARD. WOULD CHANGE THE SYSTEM. THAT IS THAT VICTIMS COMING. FORWARD AND VERY BRAVELY SAYING. WHAT THEY WENT THROUGH.

ONE MORE POINT HERE, DANA. THIS HAS TO BE SAID IS A FALL. FROM GRACE FOR BRAND. HE IS A BIG STAR HERE, BIG STAR. IN THE U.K. RECENT YEARS HE HAS BEEN TRYING. TO REHABILITATE HIMSELF. HE HAS BEEN TRYING TO TAKE ON. THE ROLE OF SERIOUS COMMENTATOR. ON POLITICS, RELIGION AND. WELLNESS. HE JUST COULD NOT SHAKE HIS. PAST. AND HE FACED HIS PAST TODAY AND. WE'LL FIND MORE ABOUT WHAT IS TO. COME PROBABL.