Crime & Justice
Chris Brown avoids prison, gets suspended sentence for London nightclub bottle attack
October 26, 2026 at 01:31 PM
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BNBBC News
Chris Brown: US singer given suspended eight-month prison sentence over nightclub attack
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TGThe Guardian
Chris Brown given suspended sentence over bottle attack at London club
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Chris Brown avoids prison time for brawling at London nightclub
(opens the publisher’s site)US singer Chris Brown has been given an eight-month suspended prison sentence for attacking a man with a tequila bottle at a Mayfair nightclub in 2023.
- Brown, 37, pleaded guilty to affray in July and was sentenced at Southwark Crown Court on Monday.
- Judge Tony Baumgartner said the repeated use of a glass bottle aimed at the head was "plainly dangerous."
- Brown's vocal coach Omololu Akinlolu received a four-month suspended sentence, and both men were ordered to pay £1,500 costs.
- CCTV footage showed Brown struck music producer Abraham Diaw four times with the bottle, twice to the head, during the February 2023 attack.