Russell Brand ‘turned monster-like during hotel room rape’

Russell Brand in 1999, taken by a woman who alleges that he raped her moments later in a hotel room where she was staying during the Labour Party conference in Bournemouth - (PA)

Russell Brand turned into a “monster” when he stripped naked and raped a woman in a hotel room at the Labour Party conference, a court has heard.

Brand, now 51, denies forcing himself on the woman after meeting her at a cabaret show at the 1999 political event in Bournemouth.