Singer and rapper Chris Brown was charged Thursday in the U.K. in connection with a 2023 nightclub incident.
Brown was charged with grievous bodily harm with intent following an investigation by the Metropolitan Police of London.
He was in custody Thursday evening and was scheduled to appear at Manchester Magistrates’ Court at 10 a.m. Friday, police said.
The charge stems from an alleged assault at a venue in Hanover Square on Feb. 19, 2023, police said.
Police had said earlier that a man was arrested at a Manchester hotel shortly after 2 a.m. Thursday on suspicion of grievous bodily harm in connection with an incident on the same date in 2023, but did not name Brown.
NBC News has reached out to Brown’s reps for comment.
The star is slated to tour Europe with stops in the U.K. in June.
Brown has a history of legal problems stretching back more than a decade.
In 2009, he was arrested for assaulting his ex-girlfriend singer Rihanna, and pleaded guilty to felony assault that same year. In January 2013 Brown allegedly got into an altercation with singer Frank Ocean in which he punched and threatened to shoot him, TMZ reported at the time.
In 2017, Brown’s ex-girlfriend model Karrueche Tran was granted a five-year restraining order against him. In 2022, he was accused of drugging and raping a woman on a yacht in 2020 in a lawsuit filed in Los Angeles County Court. That case was later dismissed for lack of prosecution after no one for either side showed up for a scheduled hearing, NBC Palm Springs reported.
