Can we talk about Laura Brand

I think they are both utterly terrified he will go to prison. It’s the last few days and weeks of their lives. They know it is. With kids who are also being affected by him. This will mean the end of life as they know it. After prison then what?
I have softened slightly this week to seeing her as a victim. Not on the same level as these brave women who have come forward for justice and have been through the hell and trauma of the trial and the years before this. The rapes and assaults and devastating affect on their lives.
But I think his legal team have told him what will happen and that their whole world is about to implode. I have been through abuse of a different level but I also kind of feared my life as I knew it was about to change. But now it’s like this massive weight has been lifted and we are free of the dominator. We can be ourselves again. We can have a good life without the abuser. I hope justice does prevail for these women. They deserve a good authentic life now where their bravery is recognised.
Laura will need help from this too. shes so besotted by him. The cult of celebrity also has a massive amount to do with this. Why do we all see people who work on the telly as special ??

Has Kirsty Gallacher expressed her support for him?

I've watched a few excerpts of those "sunday prayers" videos were they both ramble incoherent word salads full of bible quotes and whatnot. Laura reminds me of that American student (Otto Warmbier) who was made prisoner in North Korea and force to give a public conference praising Kim Jong. Laura got handed a script by RB and she needs to stick to it, sometimes she fails the script but gets inmediately corrected through gaslighting or a cold stare. she has children with the cult leader and financially depends on him which are very genuine reasons to stick by him.

I find those video total cringe but suspect I'm not the only one.

Thanks for clarity on that. Personally I don't even want to give him the views regardless but at least posters know he isn't being paid.

yep I meant a cult of 3 sorry, forgot the third cult member.

Perhaps a cult of three as Kirsty Gallacher is clearly a supporter as well.

Being with a narcissist is like being in a cult of two and RB is a massive one. As a member of the "RB cult" (sorry: couple) she's supposed to support his delusional thinking (aka: alternative reality), that includes: he never hurt those women, his sh-it doesn't stink, he never said what he just said and it's "us against the world". You always need to say "sorry" and ask for forgiveness to the cult leader, even when you're right. She used to have a blog, did content creation of her own etc... but had to shut down the whole thing and dedicate herself to RB, because it's all about him. This woman doesn't have a life of her own anymore, she lost herself in a "cult of two".

There’s no way I’m giving that scummy bastard any views or clicks. Why would you ask us to do that OP?!

The Americans were saying the uk court processes are outdated. The victims shouldn’t be anonymous, the media reporting is too constricted, the defendant shouldn’t be in a dock but sitting with their legal team etc

the women are obviously lying etc etc.

they said he’s set up to lose and it’s unfair

i don’t know if this is just a crackpot programme and there are more sensible Americans out there

Stop referring to women as “females.” You’re very male-identified.

I just think, it's odd enough having a intelligent British person become a rabid religious nut, what's the likelihood of two people genuinely suddenly believing all that, so she already going along with his version of reality in a significant way.

I can’t watch. Theyre tearing apart the UK judicial system and saying the women are lying and poor Russell is being set up

I had a male acquaintance say he was gorgeous, which is a bit odd in itself as straight men, when acknowledging another man is handsome usually use relatively neutral words like 'handsome' or 'good-looking guy' not gorgeous.

Oh and lots of women fancied him. Implication is that this was all consensual, of course.

Not THIS woman, mate.
I always saw him as a stupid little brother who talks shite.

I wish I hadn’t watched it now. So in America they are calling it a sham trial?! He’s brainwashed America too… but he isn’t the first man to do that with his rambling, self
promoting, misogynistic views eh?! 🤔

I wonder if she hears the evidence and feels any tiny amount of recognition of his behaviour. Surely she
stsrt to have doubts. Perhaps she’s fully brainwashed

Well if so that's good then, isn't it?

But haven’t these witnesses already been cross examined by the defence team? They’ve had their chance to go into every tiny detail and from what I’ve read, every single witness has been extremely consistent with their evidence. There have been no “oh gosh, the Defence have really made people doubt what she’s said” moments.

Totally agree.
The devil is in the detail.

I believe that on balance he is guilty but as the details of the anal rape crime has disturbed me greatly, (obviously I'm not saying it's anywhere near as the alleged victim, that would be ridiculous but it's natural to feel sickened by such crime) part of me wishes it were made up. It's so horrific it would be less bad.

I really want all aspects, every detail, scrutinised.

I don't click on links to make others wealthy. Or even more wealthy.