Grime artist Stormzy has received a £533 fine after admitting to operating his mobile phone while behind the wheel of his £400,000 Ferrari Purosangue.
The 32-year-old rapper, prosecuted under his legal name Michael Ebenazer Owuo Junior, entered a guilty plea to failing to maintain proper control of his vehicle at Croydon Magistrates' Court.
Magistrate Lynn Keane imposed the fine alongside £120 in costs and a £213 victim surcharge, bringing his total court bill to £866.
The musician was also handed three penalty points on his driving licence.
Stormzy pleaded guilty to the offence
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He has been given one month to pay the full amount following the conviction.
The incident occurred on the morning of November 10 near the rapper's Kingston upon Thames residence in south-west London.
Metropolitan Police constable Glen Lambert pulled over the black supercar at 9:25am after observing Stormzy entering a destination into his phone's navigation software whilst sitting in stationary traffic.
In his statement, the officer described noticing that the driver appeared "distracted and no longer in proper control" of the vehicle.
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"As I passed the vehicle on the offside to filter through traffic I noticed the driver was inputting an address on his maps application on his mobile phone," PC Lambert stated.
The officer added that based on the car's movements, he determined the driving standard had dropped below that expected of someone maintaining full, careful control.
This marks the second occasion the chart-topping artist has faced prosecution for a mobile phone driving offence.
Earlier this year, in January 2025, Stormzy received a nine-month driving ban after an off-duty police officer spotted him using his phone whilst at the wheel of a Rolls-Royce in West Kensington.
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This is the second time Stormzy has been caught on his phone while in a car
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That case resulted in a substantially larger financial penalty, with the rapper ordered to pay £2,010 in total.
On that occasion, he pleaded guilty to the phone offence and additionally admitted a separate charge relating to excessively tinted windows on his vehicle.
The latest conviction comes less than six months after his driving ban would have concluded.
Stormzy acknowledged his actions in a written guilty plea, stating in mitigation: "I accept I was putting a location in the map."
Stormzy will have to pay a total of £866
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The case was processed through the Single Justice Procedure on May 7, a private hearing that did not require the rapper's attendance.
The November offence took place approximately one month after another incident involving the same Ferrari, when Stormzy ran out of fuel on Putney High Street.
During that breakdown, he held an impromptu meet-and-greet session with fans who gathered around the stranded vehicle and shared footage of the encounter online.
Court statistics reveal that 1,195 drivers have been prosecuted over the past month for similar offences, resulting in nearly £180,000 in fines and 58 driving bans.