Chris Brown given 8-month suspended sentence over 2023 London incident
LONDON -- Chris Brown was handed an 8-month suspended sentence on Monday after pleading guilty in connection with an incident in which prosecutors said he attacked a person in London in 2023.
The singer, 37, pleaded guilty in July to affray, a charge that carried a maximum sentence of 3 years in prison. Brown's sentence will be suspended for 12 months, Judge Tony Baumgartner said on Monday at Southwark Crown Court.
The Metropolitan Police said in a statement in May that the charge relates to an incident that took place at a venue in Hanover Square in London on Feb. 19, 2023.
Claire Campbell, a senior crown prosecutor in London, said in July that Brown and Omololu Akinlolu, 40, Brown's vocal coach, allegedly attacked a victim in a nightclub, saying Brown "used a glass bottle as a weapon to strike the victim’s head twice."
"This kind of violence is entirely unacceptable, and the Crown Prosecution Service will work tirelessly -- with the police and partners across the criminal justice system -- to pursue cases like this, and prove that no one is above the law," Campbell said in a statement at the time.
Akinlolu also entered in July a guilty plea to a charge of affray, which U.K. law defines as when someone "uses or threatens unlawful violence towards another and his conduct is such as would cause a person of reasonable firmness present at the scene to fear for his personal safety."
Akinlolu was given a 4-month suspended sentence, which will be suspended for 12 months, the judge said on Monday.
ABC News' Joe Simonetti and Yi-Jin Yu contributed to this report.
