Wow, I admit, that IS more than I expected.
Back to HMP Wandsworth (which at least I did correctly predict).
I noted how RB tried to maintain a faux faux Cockney hardman image OUTSIDE the court but apparently utterly switched to being ever so contrite INSIDE the court room. I noted RB doesn't seem to understand the 'permenance of objects' and I would be amazed if the judge hadn't monitored Brand's actions during the trial to see if that contrition was real - which we all know it wasn't.
Now RB WILL have to pay either his current legal team or a new team as an appeal has to be lodged within 28 days.
Now for people outside the UK - an appeal could potentially take YEARS to reach court and if it fails, the entire time spent in prison while appealing his sentence/guilt can be considered 'loss of time' i.e. the time spent appealing would not be considered part of his sentence. It's discretionary but if the judge sees 'no merit' i.e. it's merely a last ditch attempt then it WILL be treated as loss of time.
There are two more allegations of rape which RB has been interviewed in relation to, one being a 16 year old girl.
A second conviction would add a decade or more and I would be surprised if under questioning, RB hasn't done exactly the same as in the interviews that have been made public i.e. read from a carefully composed statement and refuse to answer any additional questions. Basically claiming not to recall anything.
So I suppose in the next 28 days we will have some idea of how RB is thinking. If that second tranche of complaints DOES reach court before any appeal, even guilt on one count would result in a much longer sentence and make any appeal essentially pointless UNLESS all three guilty verdicts are reversed.
He has already been classed as a VP so will spend his time in seg which is typically locked up 21 hours a day. As Tommy-Ten-Names proved, it's still possible to gain earned privilages. A few prisons have VP wings, but not many and not enough and with rule 45, it's first come, first served.
I should add that there are four HMPs whose inmates are ALL sex offenders but all of them are catagory C and I suggest RB would have to do most of his time before being put into a cat C.
Frankly, IF either of those other complaints make it to trial, I wouldn't be at all surprised if RB ended himself.