LONDON, July 24 – U.S. singer Chris Brown on Friday pleaded guilty to a charge of affray relating to an alleged attack on a music producer in a London nightclub three years ago, with prosecutors saying they would not proceed with more serious assault charges.
Brown, 37, and his co-defendant Omololu Akinlolu, 40, stood in the dock at London’s Southwark Crown Court and spoke only to confirm their names and their guilty pleas over the incident with Abraham Diaw in London’s Tape nightclub in February 2023.
The pair admitted having “used or threatened unlawful violence towards another and their conduct taken together was such as would cause a person of reasonable firmness … to fear for their personal safety”.
Prosecutor Heidi Stonecliffe said more serious charges of attempting to inflict grievous bodily harm and a less serious charge of assault causing actual bodily harm, which the pair had denied, would not proceed to trial.
Brown and Akinlolu will be sentenced at the same court on October 26. REUTERS
