Stormzy has been banned from driving for 9 months at Wimbledon Magistrates’ Court docket after utilizing a telephone behind the wheel of a Rolls Royce in west Kensington in March final yr.
The Vossi Bop rapper, 31, turned up at present to face his cost over a drive he took in March 2024 across the west Kensington space of London in his Rolls Royce Wraith. He beforehand denied utilizing his telephone whereas driving.
A court docket heard in September that the musician – actual title Michael Ebenazer Owuo Junior – was allegedly caught by an off-duty police officer utilizing the gadget behind the wheel of his £225,000 automotive.
Prosecutor Alice Holloway beforehand laid out particulars of the alleged incident on Addison Highway, saying: ‘He’s an off-duty police officer who noticed the defendant driving whereas utilizing a cell phone.’
She continued: ‘His automobile was alongside Mr Owuo junior’s automobile, and though the home windows have been tinted he may see the defendant utilizing the cell phone whereas driving.’
Holloway additionally claimed the PC ‘produced footage’ which was ‘robotically taken whereas he was driving’.
‘The problem is a factual denial that he was utilizing the cell phone,’ stated Stormzy’s defence lawyer.
This comes after Stormzy pleaded responsible to driving his Lamborghini Urus on Coombe Lane, Kingston upon Thames, on 17 October 2023, with illegally tinted home windows.
Whereas there aren’t any guidelines for tinting the rear windscreen or rear passenger home windows, there are guidelines for tinted home windows within the entrance or entrance sides to cease them being too darkish.
The entrance two home windows in Stormzy’s automotive let 4% of sunshine by means of however the authorized requirement is a minimal of 70%, making them darkish sufficient to ‘contain a hazard of damage to any particular person’, paperwork stated as per the BBC.
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