Chris Brown arrested in Salford over alleged bottle assault in nightclub

The US musician Chris Brown has been arrested in Salford over an alleged bottle assault at a London nightclub two years in the past.

The 36-year-old rapper, a former spouse of the singer Rihanna, used to be arrested at 2am on Thursday on the five-star Lowry resort in Greater Manchester, after flying into the United Kingdom for an upcoming excursion.

He is being held in custody on suspicion of grievous physically hurt as a part of an investigation led via Metropolitan police detectives.

Brown is accused of sporting out an unprovoked assault that injured the track manufacturer Abe Diaw at Tape nightclub in London’s Mayfair in February 2023. The Go Crazy singer is accused of hitting the sufferer with a bottle two or thrice, and punching and kicking him as he lay at the ground.

Diaw up to now stated he had introduced a civil declare in opposition to Brown for $16m in damages after he wanted crutches to stroll following the alleged assault, in an interview with the Sun.

A Metropolitan police spokesperson stated: “A 36-year-old man was arrested at a hotel in Manchester shortly after 0200hrs on Thursday, 15 May on suspicion of grievous bodily harm.

“He has been taken into custody where he remains. The arrest relates to an incident at a venue in Hanover Square on 19 February 2023.”

Brown is because of play 10 dates in the United Kingdom as a part of his Breezy Bowl XX excursion, starting on the Co-op Live enviornment in Manchester on 15 June.