Police are to take no action against North-East comedian Chubby Brown after an incident in which fans of the funnyman were showered with shards of glass, it emerged last night.
West Midlands Police said the comic would not face charges after he threw a glass of water at a wall while being heckled during a show in June, at the Alexandra Theatre, Birmingham.
The glass smashed on the side of the stage, showering members of the audience with fragments and leaving a small number of people with scratches to their arms and one woman needing hospital treatment for a grazed eye.
The performance was curtailed immediately and people were offered a full refund.
At the time of the incident Mr Brown, of Middlesbrough, told theatre staff he had thrown the glass in "frustration" over heckling, directing it at the wing of the stage and not the audience.
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