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Chris Brown at Southwark Crown Court docket

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Key Takeaways:

• The reported sufferer, music producer Abe Diaw, claims Brown attacked him with a bottle throughout the alleged altercation.
• Brown stays free on a £5 million bond and can return to court docket in July.
• The trial is ready to start in October 2026.

On Friday (June 20), Chris Brown appeared at London’s Southwark Crown Court docket and pleaded not responsible to at least one rely of trying to trigger grievous bodily hurt. The “Residuals” singer’s cost stems from an alleged 2023 nightclub incident by which he was accused of attacking a music producer with a bottle.

“Not responsible, ma’am,” Brown, wearing a navy-blue swimsuit, instructed the court docket clerk when requested for his plea, in accordance with NBC News. He additionally faces two further fees — one rely of assault and one among possessing an offensive weapon — and can enter pleas for these at his subsequent listening to on July 11.

Till then, Brown stays free, together with his trial set to start on Oct. 26, 2026.

Brown was initially taken into U.Ok. police custody in Might over the alleged altercation. District Choose Joanne Hirst initially dominated that the fees have been “too serious” to grant bail, however the 11:11 artist was in the end launched later that month on a hefty £5 million bond (roughly $6.7 million). He paid £4 million upfront, then one other £1 million within the days that adopted.

As a part of the situations, Brown needed to give up his passport, although he can briefly regain it each time he travels for his “Breezy Bowl XX Stadium World Tour.” In actual fact, the singer’s court docket listening to on Friday befell the morning after he performed a packed present at Cardiff’s Principality Stadium on Thursday (June 19).

Brown’s tour resumes on Saturday (June 21) in London and is scheduled to run by means of October. Bryson Tiller, Jhené Aiko, and Summer time Walker are anticipated to affix him on choose dates alongside the way in which.