Rapper Stormzy has been fined over £500 after police caught him using a mobile phone at the wheel of his £400,000 Ferrari. The 32-year-old was pulled over by a Metropolitan Police constable last November near his Kingston upon Thames home, having been spotted typing an address into his phone's map application in stationary traffic.
He admitted the offence at the roadside. At Croydon Magistrates' Court, Stormzy pleaded guilty to not having proper control of his vehicle. Magistrate Lynn Keane fined him £533, plus £120 costs and a £213 victim surcharge, also adding three penalty points to his licence.
This marks the second time the music superstar has been penalised for a mobile phone offence. 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.
According to court papers obtained by the Press Association, Stormzy – prosecuted under his real name Michael Ebenazer Owuo Junior – was pulled over in his black Ferrari Purosangue at 9.25am on November 10 by Pc Glen Lambert. The officer said in a statement that he noticed the driver was “distracted and no longer in proper control” of the supercar.
“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 said. “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. 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.”
Entering his guilty plea in writing, Stormzy said in mitigation: “I accept I was putting a location in the map.” The incident happened a month after he had run out of petrol in the same Ferrari on Putney High Street. While waiting for assistance, the rapper staged an impromptu meet-and-greet with fans and posted a video of the incident.
After his latest conviction, Stormzy was given a month to settle the total court bill of £866. His prosecution was dealt with by the Single Justice Procedure on May 7, in a private hearing which he was not required to attend. Court data shows 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.
