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Daily Mirror
17-05-2025
- Daily Mirror
Chris Brown's pal remanded in custody after court hearing over nightclub attack
Chris Brown's musician pal Omololu Omari Akinlolu has been denied bail and remanded in custody after appearing in court today. The Metropolitan Police announced today that US national Akinlolu, 38, had been charged with grievous bodily harm with intent. Police said the charge relates to an assault, which reportedly took place at a venue in Hanover Square in London, on Sunday, 19 February 2023. Akinlolu appeared in the dock flanked by security guards at Manchester Magistrates' Court wearing a pink tracksuit. He spoke to confirm him name and address, which was given to the court as The Lowry Hotel in Salford, which is the address Chris Brown also gave during his hearing yesterday, MEN reports. During today's hearing, prosecutor Peter Conroy told the court the prosecution will allege Akinlolu 'repeatedly punched' victim Abe Diaw 'in the head'. He added that it is alleged an incident at the London nightclub started at a bar area and continued across the bar into a different room within the establishment. The prosecutor also told the court how police attempted to contact both Akinlolu and Brown on 'several occasions' in an attempt to invite them to voluntary interviews. He added that the interviews did not take place because Akinlolu and Brown did not respond. The court also heard how Akinlolu was arrested in Manchester on Friday night. Grace Forbes, who is representing Akinlolu, told the court: "He will be entering a not guilty plea." But a plea was not entered during the hearing today. The defence added to the court that if Akinlolu had been trying to avoid police in the UK, he wouldn't have come to the UK. Ms Forbes said: "That would be an extraordinary thing to do if he had any intention to avoid the police in this country." An application for bail was made for Akinlolu as Ms Forbes proposed a surety involving his mother's 'life-savings'. She added that Akinlolu would surrender his passport, reside in Manchester and not apply for any travel documents and proposed that he wouldn't enter any port or airport, and abide by a curfew. However, bail was refused and Akinlolu was remanded in custody. Chairman of the bench, Ronald Marshall, says: "On this occasion we are refusing bail and you will be kept in custody." The case is adjourned. Akinlolu will appear at Southwark Crown Court in London on June 20. Brown and fellow musician Akinlolu released music together in the past, as Hoody Baby featured on Brown's track No Such Thing, released in 2020. Meanwhile, Brown features on Hoody Baby's song Flexing, which also has features from Lil Wayne, Quavo and Gudda Gudda. Yesterday, 36 year old musician Chris Brown appeared at Manchester Magistrates Court after being charged with grievous bodily harm with intent by the Metropolitan Police. He was arrested at 2am on Thursday at The Lowry Hotel in the city after police discovered he was in the country ahead of upcoming tour dates in Europe and the UK. Brown has been remanded in custody until June 13 by a judge in Manchester over an allegation of causing grievous bodily harm with intent. Following Brown's arrest, a spokesman for The Metropolitan Police said: "A 36-year-old man was arrested at a hotel in Manchester shortly after 02:00hrs 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. The investigation is being led by detectives from the Central West Area Basic Command Unit." On Thursday evening, Adele Kelly, the Deputy Chief Crown Prosecutor for CPS London North, said: "We have authorised the Metropolitan Police to charge Chris Brown, 36, 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 February 19 2023. He will have his first court appearance on Friday May 16 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." Following the news Brown had been remanded in custody until June 13, dates for his upcoming tour have been thrown into chaos. His Breezy Bowl XX Tour is due to start in Amsterdam on June 8 - but Brown will be in custody ahead of his appearance at Southwark crown court in London on June 13.
Daily Mirror
17-05-2025
- Entertainment
- Daily Mirror
Chris Brown's pal also charged over alleged nightclub assault
A musician friend of Chris Brown's has been charged with grievous bodily harm with intent over an alleged nightclub assault, following the singer's court appearance yesterday. Brown's friend Omololu Omari Akinlolu, known as Hoody Baby or Hood Boss, is reportedly set to appear in court over the alleged incident at Tape nightclub in Hanover Square in London, on Sunday, 19 February 2023. The pair have released music together in the past, as Hoody Baby featured on Brown's track No Such Thing, released in 2020. Meanwhile, Brown features on Hoody Baby's song Flexing, which also has features from Lil Wayne, Quavo and Gudda Gudda. Yesterday, 36 year old musician Chris Brown appeared at Manchester Magistrates Court after being charged with grievous bodily harm with intent by the Metropolitan Police.
Chicago Tribune
03-04-2025
- Entertainment
- Chicago Tribune
Review: In ‘No Such Thing' by Rivendell, an older screenwriter adds some drama to her life
In a conversation with her agent, Ren, the protagonist of Lisa Dillman's new play 'No Such Thing,' describes her attitude toward her audience in her work as a screenwriter. 'Let them wonder,' she says. This meta comment relates to several layers of the play, as Ren, a woman in her 60s, explores the possibilities of an unconventional relationship defined solely by self-revelation and untethered to personal history. Her words also channel the playwright's approach to structuring this family drama; Dillman drops a juicy reveal before intermission and begins the second act with a series of flashbacks, leaving viewers waiting to see the fallout. Although the momentum lags a bit as a result, it's a largely effective choice that creates space for the playwright to examine how relationships can become messily entangled despite one's best intentions. Malkia Stampley directs this world premiere at Rivendell Theatre Ensemble, an Equity company on the North Side that centers women's stories. In Dillman's program note, she explains her interest in the experiences of women in middle age and beyond, arguing that in this country, women gradually become invisible in these stages of life. Ren (played by Susan Gosdick) is caught up in this trajectory, as a screenwriter whose recent scripts aren't gaining any traction, a wife unsatisfied with her comfortable marriage and a mother struggling to redefine her changing relationship with her adult daughter. Lively, smart and curious, Ren wants more out of life, so she begins an affair with a somewhat younger man (Josh Odor), whose name she deliberately does not learn. In fact, the two lovers tell each other no identifying details of their lives beyond the walls of the hotel where they meet. Instead, they choose which aspects of themselves to share by swapping stories — tales that may or may not be true but must 'express true feeling without apology or shame,' as Ren puts it. It's a provocative premise, one that plays with the idea of just how well we can truly know another person. To a certain extent, all relationships are bound by the stories we tell each other, and Ren's affair simply takes this concept to its logical end. In her mind, the boundaries that she and her mystery man have agreed to will insulate them from the complications of the outside world: no drama, no ruined marriages, nothing but a sparkling addition to her otherwise flat life. Of course, things do get complicated — this is theater, after all — in ways that especially impact Ren's relationship with her 27-year-old daughter, Olivia (Jessica Ervin). After a troubled adolescence, details of which are hinted at throughout the play, Olivia has pulled her life together and is working toward a master's degree in social work. Ren has trouble adjusting to the woman Olivia has become and still sees her as a broken girl, leading to resentment and distance between mother and daughter. Theirs is the most dynamic relationship of the play, one that many viewers will likely relate to on some level. By focusing on Ren and Olivia, Dillman doesn't leave much time to linger on how Ren's affair affects her marriage to Ted, a stolid businessman mostly seen relaxing in his lounge chair and scrolling on a tablet after coming home from work. If Chicago theater veteran Matt DeCaro seems underused in this role at first, he later shares an explosive scene with Gosdick that justifies the slow build. Cheryl Hamada rounds out the cast as Marilyn, Ren's agent and longtime friend who serves as the screenwriter's sounding board, unofficial therapist and deliverer of tough truths — not to mention some witty one-liners. In Ren, Dillman has written a complex character who makes decisions that are often understandable yet morally fraught. Gosdick and Ervin are well cast as the mother and daughter at the heart of the play, and you really feel for them both as they confront an impossible situation. I do think the play could dive deeper into the nature of truth as it relates to memory, a theme that is introduced in the program by a quotation from 'So Long, See You Tomorrow,' a novel by William Maxwell: 'Too many conflicting emotional interests are involved for life ever to be wholly acceptable, and possibly it is the work of the storyteller to rearrange things so that they conform to this end. In any case, in talking about the past we lie with every breath we take.' It's fascinating to me how family members can recall the same events in wildly different ways, and I thought that's the direction Dillman was going at first, but ultimately, she seems more interested in the interplay between Ren's inner world and her family life. Still, memory is the theme of several poetic passages of dialogue between Ren and her lover, and, as a professional storyteller, her personal experiences inevitably shape her work. Ren may write in a different genre from the sci-fi TV series 'Doctor Who,' but I bet she'd resonate with a popular quotation from the title character: 'We're all stories in the end. Just make it a good one, eh?' Emily McClanathan is a freelance critic. When: Through April 27 Where: Rivendell Theatre Ensemble, 5779 N. Ridge Avenue
