Musician charged with Chris Brown in alleged London nightclub assault

Singer Chris Brown accepts the AOL fan demonium entry through the Guess Awards on Sunday 27 June 2010 in Los Angeles. Picture: AP Photograph/Matt Sayles

London – a colleague – musician and buddy of Chris Brown Has been charged subsequent to the Grammy-winning singer on accusations they defeated and injured a music producer in a nightclub in London in 2023, the police mentioned on Saturday.

Omololu Akinlolu, 38, which happens beneath the title “Hoody Child”, would seem in Manchester Magistrates’ Court docket on accusation of inflicting severe bodily injury with intention.

Brown, 36, was imprisoned on Friday with no bail and threw his upcoming tour into query. He’s deliberate to seem on 13 June at Southwark Crown Court docket in London, the third day of his world tour.

Akinlolu is a rapper from Dallas, Texas, who has collaborated with Brown and Lil Wayne. He additionally goes out of the names “Fats Leopard” and “Tremendous Hood”.

The police didn’t give any particulars about what position Akinlolu performed within the alleged assault, however mentioned he was being charged in reference to the identical incident as Brown.

Brown was on tour in the UK in February 2023 when he launched an unprecedented assault on producer Abe Diaw and hit him a number of instances with a bottle within the Tape Nachtclub within the Swanky district of Mayfair in London, mentioned public prosecutor Hannah Nicholls within the courtroom on Friday.

Brown then chased Diaw and hit and kicked him in an assault that was trapped on a surveillance digital camera for a membership full of individuals, she mentioned.

Brown didn’t go right into a plea and solely spoke to substantiate his title, date of delivery, and gave his handle because the Lowry Resort, the place he was arrested in Manchester at first of Thursday and was taken into custody.

Brown’s consultant didn’t reply to a number of requests for feedback from The corresponding press.

Brown, usually talked about by his nickname Breezy, burst the music scene in 2005 and has turn into an enormous hit maker with outstanding songs equivalent to “Run It”, “Kiss Kiss” and “With out You” over time.

He received his first Grammy for one of the best R&B album in 2011 for “Fame” after which earned his second gold trophy in the identical class for “11:11 (Deluxe)” earlier this 12 months.

He’s deliberate to launch a global tour subsequent month with artists Jhene Aiko, Summer time Walker and Bryson Tiller, who open in Amsterdam on 8 June earlier than he began with North -America in July.