Multi award winning rapper Stormzy has been banned from driving after admitting using a mobile phone at the wheel.
The 31-year-old, real name Michael Ebenazer Owuo Junior, admitted the matter, which has been rumbling on for quite some time, in a letter to Wimbledon Magistrates' Court. He was sentenced in absence on Thursday, 2nd January 2024.
Owuo was previously before the court, in a manner of speaking, in July 2024, when he admitted having excessively tinted windows on his Lamboghini Uros.
The mobile phone offence took place as he was driving a Rolls-Royce Wraith on Adison Street, west Kensington, on the afternoon of Thursday, 7th March 2024.
An undercover police officer witnessed him using the device, so knocked on the heavily tinted (some people never learn) passenger side window and advised him to "get rid of your tints and get off the phone".
Owuo had six points on his licence prior to Thursday's hearing.
District Judge Andrew Sweet, sentencing, noted that Owuo's driving record was "not good" and criticised his "dangerous and irresponsible" actions.
Owuo was fined £2,010.
His licence was endorsed with a further six points, making him liable for a totting disqualification.
DJ Sweet disqualified Owuo from driving for a period of nine months.
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