Judge rejects bid to send Chris Brown to jail

A judge has turned down a prosecutor’s bid to send troubled singer Chris Brown to jail, citing his continued good behaviour and progress in a rehabilitation programme.

Brown, who remains on probation for an attack on then-girlfriend Rihanna hours before the 2009 Grammy Awards, was sentenced to three months of in-patient rehab in November after he was charged with assault over an altercation in Washington DC last year.