Russell Brand has been found guilty of rape and sexual assault, three days after his barrister asked jurors, "Why is it that only three rapes in 10 years?"

The 51-year-old comedian was convicted at Southwark Crown Court on Thursday of one count of rape and three of sexual assault, the Telegraph reported. The rape conviction relates to a young fan Brand met after one of his Hammersmith Apollo shows in 2009, and one of the sexual assaults to a woman at a Soho bar in 2004, according to GB News.

Brand had faced seven counts involving six women between 1999 and 2009, and pleaded not guilty to all of them. Reports did not immediately say whether the jury cleared him of the remaining three counts - two of rape and one of attempted indecent assault - or is still considering them.

Brand, who was accompanied to court by his wife Laura Gallacher, is expected to face a lengthy prison sentence.

As we reported on Wednesday, Brand's barrister, Ian Winter KC, closed the defense on Monday by turning his client's sex life into an argument for acquittal. "What matters is he had an immense amount of sex and none of it was unlawful," Winter told the jury of eight men and four women, which began deliberating on Tuesday.