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British rapper Stormzy banned from driving for nine months
Because he used his cell phone while driving, Stormzy had to leave the car for long periods of time. It’s not the British rapper’s first traffic offense.
The new year started with bad news for British rapper Stormzy. The 31-year-old was given a nine-month driving ban because he was caught driving with his cell phone, the British news agency PA reported from a courtroom in London.
He was driving a Rolls-Royce in the posh Kensington district when a plainclothes police officer saw him with his cell phone in his hand in March last year. Stormzy pleaded guilty.
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This is not the first time that the hip-hop star, whose real name is Michael Ebenazer Owuo Junior, has come into conflict with British road traffic regulations. Before the driving ban because of lawns, he had already received six points on the register for traffic offenders.
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He also repeatedly drove with a heavily tinted windshield, for example in a Lamborghini Urus, with which he was stopped and warned by the police in October 2023.
In addition to the driving ban, Stormzy must pay a fine of 2,000 pounds (around 2,400 euros), the judge decided, according to PA.
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