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Scottish Sun
10 hours ago
- Entertainment
- Scottish Sun
R&B star Chris Brown arrives at court to enter plea after he ‘hit producer several times with bottle in London club'
Singer was arrested at five-star hotel in Manchester IN THE DOCK R&B star Chris Brown arrives at court to enter plea after he 'hit producer several times with bottle in London club' Click to share on X/Twitter (Opens in new window) Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window) R&B star Chris Brown has arrived at court accused of hitting a producer "several times" with a bottle in a London club. The American singer, 36, is allegedly assaulted Abe Diaw at Tape nightclub in Mayfair, Central London, in February 2023. Sign up for the Entertainment newsletter Sign up 3 Chris Brown has arrived at court charged with GBH Credit: Getty Brown was arrested at the five-star Lowry Hotel in Manchester last month after flying into the city on a private jet. The star has arrived at Southwark Crown Court where he is due to enter a plea to one count of grievous bodily harm. It comes after Brown was freed on bail after paying a £5million security fee to the court. The two-time Grammy-winner, who is performing a string of UK gigs, later posted on Instagram: "From the cage to the stage!" The court heard previously that Brown struck Abe Diaw "several times" with a bottle before chasing him across the bar. He is then accused of punching and kicking him alongside his co-defendant Omololu Akinlolu. The alleged attack was captured on CCTV in a club "full of people", it was said. Brown was bailed on the condition surrender his passport if he is not travelling on tour. His gigs kicked off in Amsterdam on June 8, with his first UK performance in Manchester taking place on June 15. He played in Cardiff's Principality Stadium last night to a sell-out crowd. Brown is then scheduled to play at London's Tottenham Hotspur Stadium tomorrow and Sunday. Adele Kelly, the Deputy Chief Crown Prosecutor for CPS London North, said: "We have authorised the Metropolitan Police to charge Chris Brown with one count of grievous bodily harm, contrary to section 18 of the Offences Against the Person Act 1861. "The alleged incident occurred in London on 19 February 2023. "He will have his first court appearance on Friday 16 May at Manchester Magistrates' Court. "The Crown Prosecution Service reminds all concerned that criminal proceedings against this defendant are active and that he has the right to a fair trial. "It is extremely important that there should be no reporting, commentary or sharing of information online which could in any way prejudice these proceedings." 3 Brown is due to enter a plea today Credit: PA
The Irish Sun
10 hours ago
- Entertainment
- The Irish Sun
R&B star Chris Brown arrives at court to enter plea after he ‘hit producer several times with bottle in London club'
R&B star Chris Brown has arrived at court accused of hitting a producer "several times" with a bottle in a London club. The American singer, 36, is allegedly assaulted Abe Diaw at Tape nightclub in Mayfair, Central London, in February 2023. Advertisement 3 Chris Brown has arrived at court charged with GBH Credit: Getty Brown was arrested at the five-star Lowry Hotel in Manchester last month after flying into the city on a private jet. The star has arrived at Southwark Crown Court where he is due to enter a plea to one count of grievous bodily harm. It comes after Brown was freed on bail after paying a £5million security fee to the court. The two-time Grammy-winner, who is performing a string of UK gigs, later posted on Instagram: "From the cage to the stage!" Advertisement The court heard previously that Brown struck Abe Diaw "several times" with a bottle before chasing him across the bar. He is then accused of punching and kicking him alongside his co-defendant Omololu Akinlolu. The alleged attack was captured on CCTV in a club "full of people", it was said. Brown was bailed on the condition surrender his passport if he is not travelling on tour. Advertisement Most read in Showbiz Exclusive His gigs kicked off in Amsterdam on June 8, with his first UK performance in Manchester taking place on June 15. He played in Cardiff's Principality Stadium last night to a sell-out crowd. Brown is then scheduled to play at London's Tottenham Hotspur Stadium tomorrow and Sunday. Adele Kelly, the Deputy Chief Crown Prosecutor for CPS London North, said: "We have authorised the Metropolitan Police to charge Chris Brown with one count of grievous bodily harm, contrary to section 18 of the Offences Against the Person Act 1861. Advertisement "The alleged incident occurred in London on 19 February 2023. "He will have his first court appearance on Friday 16 May at Manchester Magistrates' Court. "The Crown Prosecution Service reminds all concerned that criminal proceedings against this defendant are active and that he has the right to a fair trial. "It is extremely important that there should be no reporting, commentary or sharing of information online which could in any way prejudice these proceedings." Advertisement 3 Brown is due to enter a plea today Credit: PA 3 The singer was arrested as he touched down in the UK Credit: PA
Boston Globe
11-06-2025
- Politics
- Boston Globe
Do we really need two public radio stations in Boston?
Trying to get in tune with the political times, GBH, Boston's other National Public Radio-affiliated station, launched a ' in 2023 . The news show was intended to help combat polarization and give voice to listeners in red America. On a recent Thursday night, I drove home listening to an episode, broadcast from Birmingham, Ala., about the Christian right. It lived up to its name and featured a perfectly civil conversation between an author and a minister. With advertising revenue dropping at WBUR and expenses taking a toll at GBH, Advertisement Boston is one of only four cities that has the luxury of two NPR stations; the others are Atlanta, San Francisco, and Los Angeles. So the Boston public stations will suffer twice the pain if government backing is lost, even though only a of their funding comes from taxpayers. The city does lean liberal, and WBUR and GBH have cultivated their own loyal audiences over the years. Lunch time wouldn't be the same without 'Jim and Margery,' Jim Braude and Margery Eagan, who cohost and quibble during their daily call-in 'Boston Public Radio' show on GBH, which often gives airtime to the state's top political figures. The live news production 'Here and Now' is consistently WBUR's top-rated show and can be heard in 90 percent of the country. WBUR reaches approximately 387,000 listeners each week, and GBH has a weekly audience of 299,000, according to Advertisement Still, a hard question lingers in the Boston air: Do we really need two NPR affiliates in Boston? Rather than cutting both operations to the bone and seeing a decline in the quality of their programs, might it be wiser to merge the two stations? I can already hear the howls of rage across the city coming from our highly educated, affluent population — NPR's target audience. The question has been asked previously and rejected. GBH's Goldberg, who moved to Boston after a successful run at National Geographic, said last week that speculation about a merger was premature. NPR And given the loss of so many newspapers over the past decade and so much of Advertisement Trump would consider seeing an NPR station disappear as a victory. That's one big reason not to merge GBH and WBUR. In February 2019 I gave one of the first public talks in CitySpace, to promote my latest book, 'Merchants of Truth.' As senior WBUR executives proudly showed me around, I did wonder whether a public radio station could afford this crystal palace. Maybe we will soon know the answer.
BBC News
10-06-2025
- BBC News
Haverhill man jailed for biting off worker's finger at Linton pub
A man who bit off a pub worker's finger when he was asked to leave the venue has been Roskilly, 48, became verbally aggressive at The Crown Inn, Linton, Cambridgeshire, on 11 November from Castle Lane, Haverhill, Suffolk, refused to leave and dragged the intervening pub worker, who was not on shift, outside before biting off his right middle was jailed for two years and eight months at Cambridge Crown Court after admitting to assault causing grievous bodily harm (GBH), without intent. Officers arrested Roskilly at just before midnight and the pub worker made his own way to hospital, but doctors could not save his a police interview, Roskilly said he had a drink problem but claimed he did not remember the incident and was shocked by his admitted consuming more than seven pints of alcoholic drink and visited Linton, more than 25 miles (40km) away from the pubs where he usually drank. 'Horrific attack' On 5 June, he was also given an indefinite restraining order, stopping him from contacting the victim or visiting the pub Con Lauren Skinner, from Cambridgeshire Police, said the victim impact statement highlighted it was a "horrific attack".The pub worker said his practical skills had been affected, he was "rendered useless" in his usual job and the "terrible and traumatic experience impacts him daily".She added: "He also explained how he now suffered from repeated post-traumatic stress disorder and has no dexterity, leaving him unable to do everyday tasks."Det Con Skinner said the victim had urged the judge to jail Roskilly, saying it was "important he is not at liberty to wreak such violent havoc again".She said he was "devastated and dismayed" at the thought the pub could lose its reputation as a community venue. Follow Cambridgeshire news on BBC Sounds, Facebook, Instagram and X.
Yahoo
06-06-2025
- Yahoo
Former vicar linked to ‘Eunuch Maker' castration cult admits back-street surgery
A former vicar linked to the 'Eunuch Maker' ring performed a back-street surgery on another man's genitals with a pair of scissors. Geoffrey Baulcomb, 79, retired from the historic St Mary the Virgin church in Eastbourne, East Sussex, several years ago, but was still ordained at the time of the offence. A hearing at the Old Bailey heard how Baulcomb was a friend of Marius Gustavson, the imprisoned Norwegian ringleader of an extreme body modification cult operating in the UK. The pair are said to have exchanged around 10,000 messages. On Friday, Baulcomb admitted causing grievous bodily harm with intent after using nail scissors to perform a procedure on a man's penis in January 2020. The victim cannot be identified for legal reasons. Baulcomb carried out the unlawful procedure at his home in Filching Road, Eastbourne. He previously admitted seven charges, including distributing an indecent video of a child and making a category A indecent image of a child. Baulcomb admitted making four indecent photos of a child, namely four category B images and making 37 category C indecent images of a child. He admitted three further charges of possessing extreme pornographic images. The charges date between March 4 2020 and Dec 14 2022. The self-styled 'Eunuch Maker' Gustavson mutilated paying customers and streamed it online. The Norwegian, who had his own penis cut off, a nipple removed and his leg frozen so it had to be amputated, was jailed for life last year with a minimum term of 22 years. Police had raided Baulcomb's £25,000 cottage near Eastbourne in December 2022 and found a stash of heroin along with the tranquilliser ketamine. Baulcomb accepted a police caution for possessing the substances and told church officials he had been buying and using drugs, including heroin, 'periodically' for 20 years. The Church of England's disciplinary tribunal had 'utterly rejected' his claim that taking drugs 'assisted him in carrying out his pastoral mission'. Baulcomb was handed a permanent ban from any church position last September. Prosecutor Caroline Carberry, KC, previously told the court: 'The images relate to moving images which had been on the 'Eunuch Maker' website. 'Mr Baulcomb is an acquaintance of Marius Gustavson and the evidence discloses over a four-year period he was regularly in touch, exchanging just over 10,000 messages to each other on their mobile phone. 'At the time of his arrest his phone was seized and analysed and as a result of that some material was found which led to this defendant being charged with the offence of section 18 GBH with intent. 'That charge specifically refers to the defendant carrying out a surgical procedure designed to enlarge the opening of the urethra and to use a pair of scissors to do so. 'There is a nine-second video of the procedure being carried out.' Judge Nigel Lickley, KC told Baulcomb on Friday that he would likely face 'a custodial sentence of some length'. He was placed on conditional bail and will be sentenced on Sept 1. Broaden your horizons with award-winning British journalism. Try The Telegraph free for 1 month with unlimited access to our award-winning website, exclusive app, money-saving offers and more.
