Chris Brown's hand in cast after Ocean fight

Chris Brown has made his first public appearance since his weekend bust-up with fellow R&B singer Frank Ocean - with his hand in a cast.

The stars and their entourages reportedly clashed on Sunday in a dispute over a parking space outside Westlake Recording Studio in West Hollywood, California.

Ocean was hospitalised with minor injuries to his hand, and now it has emerged that Brown was also hurt - he was photographed leaving his house on Tuesday with a hard cast covering his right hand and knuckles.

Brown has since been named as a suspect in a battery report, but, according to TMZ.com, his lawyer Mark Geragos has told investigators that surveillance footage capturing the end of the fight shows his client did not throw a punch.