Chris Brown handed suspended sentence in London court
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.

Singer Chris Brown arrives at Southwark Crown Court where he is due to be sentenced after pleading guilty to affray over an incident in which prosecutors said he attacked a music producer with a bottle in a London nightclub in 2023, in London, Britain, October 26, 2026.
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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.
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