US singer Chris Brown avoids jail after guilty plea in UK nightclub incident

South China Morning Post26 October 2026, 12:48 UTCUnited Kingdom

US singer Chris ⁠Brown was spared an immediate prison sentence in Britain on Monday for attacking a producer with a tequila bottle in a London nightclub in 2023. Brown, 37, was given an eight-month suspended sentence at London’s Southwark Crown Court ‌after he admitted a charge of affray over the attack on Abraham Diaw at the Tape nightclub in February 2023. The R&B star and his vocal coach Omololu Akinlolu, 40, pleaded guilty in July, having denied more serious charges of attempting to inflict...

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