‘One year off’: Judge reduced Russell Brand's prison sentence because of mitigating factors

Barrister and broadcaster Andrew Eborn explains how mitigating circumstances, including charitable work and efforts helping people overcome addiction, affected Russell Brand’s prison sentence. “What happened is they did take into account some of the mitigating circumstances,” Mr Eborn told News24 host Elizabeth Pipko. “You talked about his conversion. “You talked about actually these offences were some time ago. “You talked about how he’s actually helped some people with addiction. “So, all of these were good factors, which effectively meant that he reduced his sentence by one year.”