00:00this was serious public violence in your case brown it involved the repeated use as i have said of a
00:07bottle including twice striking door to his head against those matters i take account of the short duration of the
00:14incident the absence of planning
00:16the period which elapsed since your offense your compliance with bail your guilty pleas your family responsibilities and the substantial
00:27personal mitigation available to each of you and the material bearing upon the risk of further offending i have considered
00:36whether the seriousness of the offending taken together with the need for punishment and deterrence amounts to exceptional circumstances requiring
00:45immediate
00:46imprisonment i have concluded in relation to each of you that it does not these were serious offenses deserving of
00:55custodial sentences but the circumstances do not justify displacing the statutory requirement that those sentences be suspended
01:06the seriousness of your offending brown including the repeated use of the bottle and the need for the suspended sentence
01:12to retain an effective deterrent force justify the operational period that will follow
01:22your sentence of eight months imprisonment will be suspended for 12 months you have spent time on remand in custody
01:31that period does not reduce the suspended sentence that i imposed today but it will count automatically
01:39if the sentence is subsequently brought into operation a video shows chris brown swinging a glass
01:46bottle at his victim in an attack at around 3 a.m on the dance floor of the tape private
01:52members club
01:53in mayfair in february of 2023 the victim is then pursued by the american musician his vocal coach before brown
02:02who is
02:03wearing a tracksuit is seen saying something to the victim who is on the ground brown was sentenced at
02:08summat crown court on monday to eight months imprisonment suspended for 12 months after pleading guilty to a fray earlier
02:14this year
02:16there were loud cheers outside the courts as brown left the building as he appeared to stop to sign an
02:21autograph and blow a kiss to a fan brown pleaded guilty in 2009 to beating his former girlfriend pop star
02:28rihanna
02:29be in no doubt however a suspended sentence order is a custodial sentence the imposition of such an order
02:38is itself a punishment with or without requirements each of you must understand the effect of a suspended
02:47sentence if you commit another offense during the operational period you will be brought back before the court
02:54the court will ordinarily be required to bring the suspended sentence into operation
