Video taking off 23x its usual first day

Protesters gather at Southwark gates as Russell Brand is sentenced

The Mirror's live coverage shows security staff managing the crowd outside court, alongside a separate upload of the judge's sentencing remarks.

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Why this story? The video opened at a pace of 212,095 views a day, 23 times a normal first day on this channel (9,088).

LIVE: Russell Brand sentenced for rape and sexual assault at Southwark Crown Court

Video summary

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0:07A black van arrives as photographers move to capture people entering the court building.
1:34Security staff instruct the press and spectators to move back behind the barriers.
4:47Demonstrators holding signs supporting Brand gather near the court entrance gates.
5:27A white prisoner transport van approaches the gates as protesters stand nearby.
15:17Journalists wait behind the barricades, checking phones and discussing court timings.

Photographers move towards arriving vehicles, and a security officer asks everyone to get back behind the barriers. The Mirror's live coverage of Russell Brand's sentencing documents the activity outside Southwark Crown Court: press crews waiting, prisoner transport approaching the gates and demonstrators gathering nearby.

Brand was sentenced to ten years and six months in prison after being convicted of raping one woman and sexually assaulting three others, The Mirror reports. Its separate upload of the sentencing remarks carries the judge's explanation of the punishment.

The exterior stream drew roughly 110,000 views in its first eight hours, an unusually fast start for the channel's long broadcasts. The sentencing upload also attracted a much larger early audience than The Mirror's regular videos usually receive.

In the street footage, demonstrators display signs supporting Brand, and an argument develops among people outside the court. Later, the camera returns to the less eventful business of waiting: journalists check their phones and discuss court timings behind the barricades.

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