Chris Brown avoids jail despite hitting a music producer twice in the head with a tequila bottle in a London nightclub
Chris Brown, who admitted affray after striking a producer twice with a tequila bottle at a Mayfair nightclub and was handed a suspended sentence today.Abraham Diaw, the music producer Brown struck and chased through Tape nightclub before Diaw was kicked while lying defenceless on the floor.Chris Brown arrives at court ahead of sentencing, having admitted affray following an attack in which vocal coach Omololu Akinlolu, 40, also punched the victim in the head.Metropolitan Police CCTV footage of Chris Brown at Tape nightclub, Mayfair. Judge Tony Baumgartner told Brown his fame did "not entitle you to special treatment" before handing him eight months suspended for 12 months.
Judge Tony Baumgartner told Chris Brown, 37, that his fame and success 'do not entitle you to special treatment'. He then suspended the singer's eight-month term for a year, saying the law required it. CCTV showed Brown swinging the bottle at Abraham Diaw four times at Tape in Mayfair, and Diaw needed hospital treatment. Fans cheered Brown outside Southwark Crown Court.
The Crown Prosecution Service branded the 2023 attack 'vicious and unprovoked'.
Brown dodged police interviews, was circulated as wanted and was arrested in Manchester in May 2025.
Grievous bodily harm and weapon charges were dropped after he admitted affray.
