Bobby Brown heads back to prison

Brown was led away in handcuffs

Troubled singer Bobby Brown has been handed a 90-day jail sentence for failing to pay child support to the mother of two of his children.

Brown will have to serve the term until he pays the $63,500 (£34,815) he owes to former partner Kim Ward, which he told a the court he could not afford.

The 35-year-old had only been released from a 60-day prison sentence on Monday for violating probation.

Wife Whitney Houston was recently admitted to a drug treatment centre.

But it is thought she left the facility on Wednesday after spending just five days there.

Brown was released from a Georgia jail three days early so he could attend the family court hearing over child support.

Judge Paula Carey issued the latest jail sentence after saying his claims of being unable to pay the money for his two children, aged 12 and 14, "lacks all credibility".

Movie plan

Brown told the judge that although he had been a successful pop star in the 1980s and early 1990s he now had no job and no income.

He said he planned to release an album within 30 days and begin production on a movie but no money had been advanced to him.

Judge Carey declined his lawyers' offers to pay $10,000 (£5,500) by the end of Wednesday, an additional $15,000 (£8,250) within 10 days and negotiate the rest.

He was led out of the court to be jailed in the Norfolk County House of Correction.

Brown is also facing a charge of battery after allegedly hitting Houston, during an altercation in December 2003.

He is due to face that charge in a Georgia court on 5 May.