The American singer Chris Brown (36) was arrested in Manchester on Thursday and is being sued for deliberately inflicting serious physical injury to a music producer. The British police report this. According to the BBC He appears before the judge on Friday.
Brown flew to the United Kingdom on Wednesday, where he planned concerts in June and July. On Thursday he was arrested in a hotel for an incident from February 2023. Then he would have beaten a music producer several times in a nightclub in London. In October 2023, the producer Brown already sued for assault and demanded compensation of 15 million dollars. The incident would have been filmed by surveillance cameras.
Brown has a long past of accusations and convictions for violent incidents. In 2009 he was convicted of assaulting singer Rihanna, his ex. Many incidents also followed, often without conviction. In 2017 he received a contact ban because he had threatened his ex-girlfriend Karrueche Tran. He was also charged several times for or accused of sexual violence and rape. He was never convicted of that.