U.S. singer Chris Brown remanded in custody by UK court over alleged assault

MANCHESTER, England (Reuters) – U.S. singer Chris Brown was remanded into custody on Friday when he appeared in an English court charged with inflicting grievous bodily harm on a man in a London nightclub in 2023.

Brown was charged over an incident on February 19, 2023, when the singer allegedly attacked a music producer with a bottle at the Tape nightclub in central London.

Judge Joanne Hirst remanded Brown into custody ahead of his next appearance at London’s Southwark Crown Court on June 13.

(Reporting by Phil Noble in Manchester and Sam Tobin in London; editing by Sarah Young)