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Chris Brown Gets Suspended Eight-Month Sentence for London Nightclub Attack
Chris Brown was given an eight-month prison sentence, suspended for 12 months, over an attack at a London nightclub.
He pleaded guilty in July to affray, a charge related to violent disorder.
The attack took place at Tape London in February 2023, where Brown struck music producer Abraham Diaw on the head with a tequila bottle.
The Crown Prosecution Service said Brown’s co-defendant, rapper Omololu Akinlolu, also attacked Diaw, who went to hospital with head and knee injuries.
Akinlolu received a four-month sentence, suspended for 12 months.
Brown was arrested in 2025 after returning to the UK, where he was due to perform in Manchester.
Other charges against the two men, including assault and grievous bodily harm, were dropped after they denied them.
Chris Brown received an eight-month prison sentence, suspended for 12 months, over an attack at a London nightclub in 2023.
He pleaded guilty to affray at Southwark Crown Court in July.
The case concerned music producer Abraham Diaw, whom Brown was accused of striking with a tequila bottle at Tape nightclub.
Brown will not serve time in prison under the sentence.
His co-defendant and vocal coach, Omololu Akinlolu, received a four-month sentence, suspended for 12 months.
- Who
- Chris Brown was sentenced; the case involved music producer Abraham Diaw and co-defendant Omololu Akinlolu.
- What
- Brown received an eight-month prison sentence suspended for 12 months after pleading guilty to affray.
- When
- The sentence was handed down on October 26, 2026; the attack took place in February 2023.
- Where
- Tape nightclub in Mayfair, London; sentencing took place at Southwark Crown Court.
- Why
- The sentence followed an attack on Diaw involving a tequila bottle.
This story does not have two clearly opposing sides.
Brown attacked music producer Abraham Diaw at Tape nightclub in London.
Brown was arrested in Manchester after returning to the United Kingdom.
Brown pleaded guilty to affray at Southwark Crown Court.
Brown received an eight-month prison sentence suspended for 12 months.
- Brown’s sentence
- Eight months in prison, suspended for 12 months
- Co-defendant’s sentence
- Omololu Akinlolu received four months, suspended for 12 months
- Offence
- Affray
- Nightclub
- Tape, Mayfair, London
- Victim
- Music producer Abraham Diaw
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What people are saying
The repeated use of a glass bottle in that way, especially aimed at the head, was plainly dangerous, it carried the risk of delivering a more serious injury than was ultimately sustained
This was a vicious and unprovoked attack by Brown and Akinlolu in a crowded nightclub where Brown used a glass bottle as a weapon to strike the victim’s head twice