Russell Brand trial opens: charged with three rapes and sexual assaults

The trial of Russell Brand began at London's Southwark Crown Court. The 51-year-old comedian and actor faces three counts of rape, three of sexual assault and one of indecent exposure against six women between 1999 and 2009. Prosecutors described him as a "manipulative sexual predator with a voracious appetite" and revealed Brand boasted of wanting to have sex with five thousand women.