Stormzy has been fined more than £500 after he was caught using a mobile phone while driving his £400,000 Ferrari. The 32-year-old rapper, whose real name is Michael Ebenazer Owuo Junior, was pulled over by the Metropolitan Police last November after being spotted typing an address into his phone while in stationary traffic near his home in Kingston upon Thames, south-west London.
Court Appearance and Sentence
Appearing at Croydon Magistrates' Court, the Vossi Bop singer pleaded guilty to not having proper control of his vehicle. Magistrate Lynn Keane fined him £533 and ordered him to pay £120 costs and a £213 victim surcharge, totalling £866. He also received three penalty points on his driving licence. This incident occurred just a month after he had run out of petrol in the same Ferrari on Putney High Street, where he staged an impromptu meet-and-greet with fans.
Police Observation
According to court papers, Stormzy was driving his black Ferrari Purosangue at 9.25am on November 10 when PC Glen Lambert noticed the driver was 'distracted and no longer in proper control' of the supercar. The officer stated: '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. From what I had seen of the vehicle's movements I was satisfied that the standard of driving had fallen below that of a driver in full, careful control of their vehicle.'
PC Lambert continued: 'I stopped the vehicle and spoke with the driver. The driver confirmed that he had just been setting a route on his maps and that he had only just picked up the device as I passed.' Stormzy, entering his guilty plea in writing, said in mitigation: 'I accept I was putting a location in the map.'
Previous Offences
This is the second time the music superstar has been caught using his phone at the wheel. In January 2025, Stormzy was banned from driving for nine months after an off-duty police officer caught him on his phone while driving a Rolls-Royce in West Kensington. He was handed a £2,010 court bill after pleading guilty and also admitting a second charge of having overly tinted windows on his car. Previously, he also admitted driving a £200,000 Lamborghini Urus that had front windows illegally tinted to only 4 per cent light transmission, violating the 70 per cent requirement. In that incident, Stormzy was stopped by officers on Coombe Lane, Kingston upon Thames, at about 12.45pm on October 17 2023, having previously been warned about the windows.
Separate court documents reveal that 1,195 motorists have been prosecuted in the last month for either not having proper control of their vehicles or using a mobile phone at the wheel, leading to fines totalling almost £180,000 and 58 driving bans.
