(11 Jul 2025)
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London – 11 July 2025
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Grammy-winning singer Chris Brown was back in court in London, Friday, for a plea hearing in an assault case dating to 2023.
Brown had pleaded not guilty in June to a charge related to the serious beating of a music producer with a bottle in a London nightclub in 2023.
Prosecutors previously said Brown and his friend assaulted producer Abe Diaw at a bar in the Tape nightclub in the swanky Mayfair neighborhood in February 2023. Brown allegedly launched an unprovoked attack on Diaw and hit him several times with a bottle and then punched and kicked him.
The attack was caught on surveillance camera in front of a club full of people, prosecutors said.
Brown was originally charged with a single count of grievous bodily harm after his arrest in May, but prosecutors subsequently brought an indictment adding two counts: assault causing actual bodily harm and having an offensive weapon, a bottle.
Brown did not enter pleas on the additional counts and was ordered to return to court July 11 to face those charges after wrapping up the European leg of his world tour. His trial was scheduled for Oct. 26 2026.
The singer of “Go Crazy,” “Run It,” and “Kiss Kiss” was released in May on a 5 million-pound ($6.75 million) bail, which allowed him to start his “Breezy Bowl XX” tour in June.
He returns to North America at the end of July to play Miami, before moving across the U.S. with a two-night stop in Toronto along the way.
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