By BRIAN MELLEY
LONDON (AP) — Grammy-winning singer Chris Brown pleaded not responsible Friday to a cost associated to the intense beating of a music producer with a bottle in a London nightclub in 2023.
Brown, 36, sporting a blue go well with, white shirt and black-rimmed glasses, was arraigned in London’s Southwark Crown Court docket on one depend of making an attempt to unlawfully and maliciously trigger grievous bodily hurt with intent.
Brown’s pal and fellow musician Omololu Akinlolu, 39, who performs beneath the identify “Hoody Child,” pleaded not responsible to the identical cost.
Prosecutors beforehand stated Brown and Akinlolu assaulted producer Abe Diaw at a bar within the Tape nightclub within the swanky Mayfair neighborhood in February 2023. Brown allegedly launched an unprovoked assault on Diaw and hit him a number of instances with a bottle after which punched and kicked him.
The assault was caught on surveillance digicam in entrance of a membership full of individuals, prosecutors stated.
Brown was initially charged with a single depend of grievous bodily hurt after his arrest in Might, however prosecutors subsequently introduced an indictment including two counts: assault inflicting precise bodily hurt and having an offensive weapon, a bottle.
When a court docket clerk requested Brown how he pleaded to the grievous bodily hurt depend, he replied: “Not responsible ma’am.”
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R&B singer Chris Brown arrives at Southwark Crown Court docket to attend a plea listening to in London, Friday, June 20, 2025.(AP Picture/Frank Augstein)
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R&B singer Chris Brown arrives at Southwark Crown Court docket to attend a plea listening to in London, Friday, June 20, 2025.(AP Picture/Frank Augstein)
Brown didn’t enter pleas on the extra counts and was ordered to return to court docket July 11 to face these fees after wrapping up the European leg of his world tour. His trial was scheduled for Oct. 26 2026.
The singer of “Go Loopy,” “Run It,” and “Kiss Kiss” was launched final month on a 5 million-pound ($6.75 million) bail, which allowed him to begin his “Breezy Bowl XX” tour earlier this month.
Following his launch after virtually every week in jail, Brown posted on Instagram: “FROM THE CAGE TO THE STAGE!!! BREEZYBOWL.”
Brown, who shortly rose to stardom as a teen in 2005, received his first Grammy for greatest R&B album in 2011 for “F.A.M.E.” after which earned his second in the identical class for “11:11 (Deluxe)” earlier this 12 months.
He’s presently touring the U.Okay., enjoying this weekend in London with subsequent reveals in Eire, Scotland, France and Portugal. He returns to North America on the finish of July to play Miami, earlier than transferring throughout the U.S. with a two-night cease in Toronto alongside the best way.
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