Singer Chris Brown pleads guilty to affray over London club confrontation

Other charges, including assault against Abraham Diaw, dropped as guilty plea averts trial The American singer and actor Chris Brown has admitted attacking a man in a private members’ club in London after playing a gig at Cardiff’s Principality Stadium in 2023. Brown will be sentenced in October for what prosecutors called an “unprovoked attack” with a bottle on the music producer Abraham Diaw at the Tape club in Hanover Square, Mayfair. Brown and his co-defendant and vocal coach Omololu Akinlolu had been facing trial later this year after pleading not guilty to more serious assault charges, as well as charges of possessing an offensive weapon – a bottle. On Friday, those charges were dropped as both men pleaded guilty to the less-serious offence of affray at Southwark crown court. Prosecutors said Brown hit Diaw twice over the head with a glass bottle before Akinlolu joined in, punching the victim in the head. Diaw was also kicked while sitting on the floor, the Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) said. At a previous hearing, the court had been told Brown pursued Diaw through the nightclub during the attack on 19 February 2023. Diaw went to St Mary’s hospital in London with head and k