“The evidence is really clear. Some people will fight. Some people will freeze. Some people will tell people straight away. Some people bottle it up for years. There isn’t one way of reacting.
“We understand that, it shouldn’t be possible for inaccurate statements to be made to a jury to suggest that because a rape victim didn’t behave in one way, that somehow that undermines their case, when the evidence is very clear, we’re all very different sort of psychological and personal make-up, and in the most extraordinary horrific moments, of course, people react very differently.”
Speaking to Times Radio, Sir Mark added: “The wider point I would make: this looks at one hand it’s a celebrity, but most sex offending is where someone of power exploits that with someone who is less powerful themselves.
“It might be an uncle, it might be a teacher, it might be a vicar. Could be a whole range of different situations. And what cases like this show is, it doesn’t matter how powerful the person is, we will support you, and we will try and bring down the person who did something ghastly to you.”
The disgraced comedian-turned-conspiracy theorist will spend the weekend in custody before returning to the same court on Monday to learn his sentence.
His wife, Laura Gallacher, who attended much of the trial, was seen hunched over in the public gallery as Mr Justice Bennathan told Brand he faced an inevitable and lengthy prison term.