00:00U.S. singer Chris Brown has been given an eight-month prison sentence, suspended for
00:06a year over an attack at a Mayfair nightclub. Brown pleaded guilty to a fray over the incident
00:11in February 2023. CCTV shown in court captured him striking producer Abe Doerr on the head
00:18with a glass bottle. Doerr needed hospital treatment for head and knee injuries. Judge
00:24Tony Baumgartner described the repeated use of the bottle as plainly dangerous, saying
00:30the incident was intense. Brown's vocal coach Omolulu Akinlolu also pleaded guilty to a fray
00:36and received a four-month prison sentence suspended for a year. Both men avoid immediate custody
00:42under their sentences.
