Source : Perth Now news
A woman has revealed her identity to publicly claim she was raped by British comedian Russell Brand when she was 16.
Mia Latter, now 37, alleged she had been mistreated by the jailed entertainer when she was a schoolgirl and he was 30.
The allegation was reported to the Metropolitan Police, and while Latter said in an interview she had decided not to continue with the criminal process, the force has said the investigation into the alleged rape remained ongoing.
Latter was referred to under the pseudonym of Alice in previous reporting by the Sunday Times, The Times, and Channel 4 Dispatches documentary.
Speaking to the Sunday Times, Latter waived her right to anonymity to campaign for a change in law that she hopes will protect teenagers from grooming.
She is calling for the introduction of a staggered age of consent, which would make relationships between adults and teens aged 16 and 17 illegal.
She was 16 when she met Brand in Leicester Square in central London, while she was on her way home from a shopping trip.
He took her number, later messaged her, and asked if she wanted to go for dinner.
She told the newspaper that Brand – who was working at MTV at the time – still asked her to meet after she had confessed her age to him.
Latter said Brand told her to keep their relationship secret from her school friends, but his entourage knew, with the convicted rapist referring to her as “the child” in front of them.
Latter alleges Brand orally raped her towards the end of their three-month relationship.
Latter spoke to the police after the documentary, but the Crown Prosecution Service decided not to include her case Brand’s trial.
“They [the police] wanted me to be part of a subsequent trial, but they said that the decision was made [not to include her in the first trial] after he had done the Megyn Kelly and the Piers Morgan interviews,” she said.
“They didn’t want it to become ‘the Alice show’, which was my pseudonym in the article. I was devastated by it.”
In an interview with conservative podcaster Kelly in early 2026, Brand said that the age of consent in the UK was 16, and he did sleep with a 16-year-old when he was 30.
He described himself as being an “immature 30-year-old” and said that consensual sex when there is a power imbalance – such as being famous – “involves exploitation”.
Latter told the newspaper: “He was a very successful man who had a lot of power and sway in the industry. Whereas I was a 16-year-old with no life experience, no sexual experience and no prior relationships. What was my level of maturity meant to be?”
Latter decided not to continue with the criminal process so she can focus on her campaign.
“I just don’t know what capacity I have to give years more of my life to this, for my head to be occupied with these awful crimes,” she told the newspaper.
Brand was convicted of attacks against four of the six women who gave evidence against him, and is now serving a 10-and-a-half-year prison term for one count of rape and three sexual assaults.
