{"id":141587,"date":"2025-01-02T16:01:39","date_gmt":"2025-01-02T16:01:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/2025\/01\/02\/stormzy-slapped-with-nine-month-driving-ban-and-fine\/"},"modified":"2025-01-02T16:01:39","modified_gmt":"2025-01-02T16:01:39","slug":"stormzy-slapped-with-nine-month-driving-ban-and-fine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/2025\/01\/02\/stormzy-slapped-with-nine-month-driving-ban-and-fine\/","title":{"rendered":"Stormzy slapped with nine-month driving ban and fine"},"content":{"rendered":"


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Stormzy<\/a> has been banned from driving for nine months.<\/p>\n

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Stormzy has been banned from driving for nine months<\/p>\n

The ‘Big For Your Boots’ hitmaker – whose real name is Michael Ebenezer Kwadjo Omari Owuo Jr – pleaded guilty via a letter to Wimbledon Magistrates’ Court for using his phone behind the wheel of his Rolls-Royce Wraith in Addison Road, Kensington, west London in March 2024, after being caught by an off-duty police officer.<\/p>\n

According to MailOnline, the court heard an off-duty police officer knocked on the vehicle’s tinted passenger window and said: “Get rid of your tints, and get off your phone.”<\/p>\n

Stormzy<\/a> had previously denied using his phone while driving but wrote to the court with a change of plea.<\/p>\n

He had previously admitted to driving his yellow Lamborghini Urus with illegally tinted front windows that gave only four per cent light transmission – the requirement being 70 per cent – in Coombe Lane, Kingston-upon-Thames, in October 2023.<\/p>\n

\nProsecutor Alice Holloway said on Thursday (02.01.25) driving the Lamborghini put “vulnerable road users at risk”.<\/p>\n

\nSentencing, District Judge Andrew Sweet said the 31-year-old star’s driving record was “not good” and criticised the musician’s actions as “dangerous and irresponsible”.<\/p>\n

\nHe said: “The court has given credit to guilty pleas.<\/p>\n

\n“In relation to the use of the mobile phone, (that plea) comes later in the day and limited credit is given.<\/p>\n

\n“In terms of Mr Owuo Jr’s behaviour with regards to driving, his driving record is not very good.<\/p>\n

\n“He has many points on his licence and in this particular case, clearly, driving with tinted windows and also using his mobile phone is dangerous and irresponsible.”<\/p>\n

\nStormzy’s legal representative, Csemiczky, said the musician “appreciates that he will be disqualified” from driving but was “pleased to update the court he has now removed the tint from his vehicles.”<\/p>\n

\nStormzy was fined \u00a3900 for using a mobile phone whilst driving and \u00a3250 for driving with illegally tinted windows, and ordered to pay \u00a3400 in costs and a victim surcharge of \u00a3460.<\/p>\n

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