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Chris Brown leaves Southwark Crown Court on July 24, 2026 after pleading guilty to affray Wiktor Szymanowicz/Future Publishing via Getty Images Chris Brown pleaded guilty to a charge of “affray” — and had the more serious counts against him dropped — at a hearing Friday over an alleged London nightclub attack.
The singer was arrested in May 2025 and charged with assault, suspicion of grievous bodily harm, and possession of an offensive weapon (a tequila bottle). The incident occurred in February 2023, where Brown and his co-defendant Omololu “Hoody Baby” Akinlolu allegedly attacked and stomped on music producer Amadou “Abe” Diaw at a London nightclub.
Brown and Akinlolu both previously pleaded not guilty to those charges, and at a short hearing Friday, the pair pleaded guilty to a charge of affray, while the more serious charges were dropped by the court, the BBC reports.
A charge of “affray” stems from someone who “fights with another person in a public place to the terror of the people.” The affray charge accepted by the defendants states that “Chris Brown and Omololu Akinlolu on February 19 2023 used or threatened unlawful violence towards another and their conduct taken together was such as would cause a person of reasonable firmness present at the scene to fear for his personal safety.”
Both Brown and Akinlolu were again released on bail following the guilty plea and will return to the U.K. on September 26 for sentencing; the pair face a maximum of three years in prison.
