Producer accused of laughing during Russell Brand assault ‘steps back’ from job
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Jack Bayles says he is ‘sickened’ by convicted comedian’s actions but does not remember incident in 2009
His trial heard that in 2009, Mr Bayles and Gareth Roy, another member of Brand’s team, forced a young female staffer to give him a massage.
When she had reluctantly agreed, Brand thrust his head into her groin and only stood up again when apparently insulted that she had commented on his “bony” body, the court heard.
“I was so repulsed by the situation,” she told the trial, and said she complained afterwards to her Channel 4 bosses.
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