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\nChris Brown admitted to affray in July<\/p>\n
American R&B singer Chris Brown has received an eight-month suspended prison sentence at Southwark Crown Court after pleading guilty to affray over a bottle attack at a London nightclub.<\/p>\n
Brown, 37, had been facing trial after he hit a former friend, Abraham Diaw, twice over the head on the dancefloor at the Tape private members’ club in Mayfair in February 2023.<\/p>\n
The singer and his vocal coach, Omololu Akinlolu, 40, jointly admitted to affray in July.<\/p>\n
The use of a glass bottle by the singer in the altercation was “plainly dangerous”, the judge told the court.<\/p>\n
Sentencing, His Honour Judge Tony Baumgartner said: “You, Brown, were holding a tequila bottle in your right hand. When you reached Diaw, you struck him to the left side of his head whilst holding his hood.<\/p>\n
“The repeated use of a glass bottle in that way, especially aimed at the head, was plainly dangerous. It carried the risk of delivering a more serious injury than was ultimately sustained.”<\/p>\n
\nChris Brown admitted to affray in July<\/p>\n
Brown and Akinlolu clasped hands after being given suspended sentences at Southwark Crown Court.<\/p>\n
Brown’s eight-month sentence was suspended for a year.<\/p>\n
Akinlolu, also a US national, was sentenced to four months’ imprisonment suspended for a year.<\/p>\n
Brown’s guilty plea avoided a trial on several other charges, including attempting to cause grievous bodily harm with intent and possession of a bottle as an offensive weapon.<\/p>\n
Brown had previously denied those charges.<\/p>\n
The R&B star wore a baseball cap, sunglasses, and a face covering as he was led through a crowd of people outside the court.<\/p>\n
He was then taken through the crowd by security and entered a black vehicle before leaving the area.<\/p>\n
Brown, a two-time Grammy winner, was arrested in May 2025 having returned to Britain for the first time since the incident and was initially denied bail, throwing his worldwide Breezy Bowl XX tour into doubt.<\/p>\n
He was eventually released after promising to pay a \u00a35 million security fee, allowing the tour to go ahead.<\/p>\n
The court case was the latest involving Brown since he was charged with assaulting his then-partner Rihanna in 2009.<\/p>\n
At Southwark Crown Court, prosecutor Heidi Stonecliffe KC said Brown pleaded guilty to the 2009 assault of Rihanna and was sentenced to five years’ probation.<\/p>\n
He also admitted to a 2013 assault on a fan he was accused of punching when he asked for a photograph.<\/p>\n
Defending Brown, Sallie Bennett-Jenkins KC said he offered a “profound apology” to all those present at the private members’ club in central London in February 2023.<\/p>\n
Source: Press Association, Reuters, AFP<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"American R&B singer Chris Brown has received an eight-month suspended prison sentence at Southwark Crown Court after pleading…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":665884,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[93,61,60],"class_list":["post-665883","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-entertainment","tag-entertainment","tag-ie","tag-ireland"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/665883","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=665883"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/665883\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/665884"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=665883"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=665883"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=665883"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}