Chris Brown avoids jail time over London nightclub brawl

Key points

• Singer Chris Brown has been given an eight-month sentence, suspended for a year, for attacking a music producer with a tequila bottle at a London nightclub. Brown pleaded guilty to affray over the February 2023 attack at Tape, a private club in Mayfair.
• Video shown in court captured Brown striking Abraham Diaw twice in the head with a bottle. Judge Tony Baumgartner said Brown did not qualify for a custodial sentence, citing his guilty plea, stable employment and charity work.
• Brown's lawyer said he apologised to everyone at the club that night.