{"id":947120,"date":"2026-10-26T16:36:10","date_gmt":"2026-10-26T16:36:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/947120\/"},"modified":"2026-10-26T16:36:10","modified_gmt":"2026-10-26T16:36:10","slug":"chris-brown-given-suspended-sentence-over-london-nightclub-attack","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/947120\/","title":{"rendered":"Chris Brown given suspended sentence over London nightclub attack"},"content":{"rendered":"

Chris Brown given suspended eight-month prison sentence over nightclub attackpublished at 14:06 GMT<\/p>\n

14:06 GMT<\/p>\n

\"ChrisImage source, PA Media<\/p>\n

US singer Chris Brown has been issued an eight-month custodial sentence, suspended for a year, after an attack at a London nightclub in 2023 which left music producer Abe Diaw needing hospital treatment for head and knee injuries.<\/p>\n

Brown, 37, and his co-defendant Omololu Akinlolu attended Southwark Crown Court after having each pleaded guilty to the offence of affray in July.<\/p>\n

Akinlolu, 40, was given the lesser sentence of four months which was also suspended – his role in the attack was deemed “significant” by Judge Tony Baumgartner but it was noted that in contrast to Brown he neither initiated it nor used a bottle.<\/p>\n

The court saw CCTV footage of the incident, and the judge explained how Brown hit Diaw with a tequila bottle – including using it to strike him on the head, describing “the repeated use” of a bottle as “plainly dangerous”.<\/p>\n

The judge considered how it took place in a “crowded” and “confined” environment and that the two defendants pursued Diaw and continued the attack after he tried to move away.<\/p>\n

The brevity of the incident was also taken into account, lasting “no more” than 20 seconds, but the violence was “intense” although it wasn’t planned, he said.<\/p>\n

Neither Brown nor Akinlolu will be going to prison today – but they were told their sentence should still be considered a “punishment”. Both men must also each pay \u00a31,500 towards the prosecution’s costs.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Chris Brown given suspended eight-month prison sentence over nightclub attackpublished at 14:06 GMT 14:06 GMT Image source, PA…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":947121,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[49,48,361,75],"class_list":["post-947120","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-celebrities","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-celebrities","tag-entertainment"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/947120","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=947120"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/947120\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/947121"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=947120"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=947120"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=947120"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}