Chris Brown pleads not guilty to additional charges in U.K. assault case
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The singer pleaded not guilty to two further charges related to the serious beating of a music producer with a bottle in a London nightclub in 2023.
Chris Brown pleaded not guilty Friday to two further charges related to the serious beating of a music producer with a bottle in a London nightclub in 2023.
Brown, 36, denied the more serious charge of attempting to cause grievous bodily harm at a hearing last month.
The Run It singer appeared at London’s Southwark Crown Court on Friday, where he spoke only to confirm his name and enter his pleas of not guilty to causing actual bodily harm and a further charge of possessing an offensive weapon in a public place.
Brown’s co-defendant, Omololu Akinlolu, 38, who performs under the name Hoody Baby, also pleaded not guilty to the charge of causing actual bodily harm, having previously denied attempting to inflict grievous bodily harm.
Brown is accused of launching an “unprovoked attack” on producer Amadou “Abe” Diaw at the Tape nightclub in London in February 2023 while he was on tour.
Prosecutor Hannah Nicholls said Brown struck Diaw several times with a tequila 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 causing 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.
