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\n\tStormzy<\/a> has been banned from driving in the U.K. for nine months after an off-duty police officer caught the rapper using a mobile phone behind the wheel of his Rolls-Royce vehicle in London.<\/p>\n \n\tThe 31-year-old born Michael Ebenazer Owuo Junior pleaded guilty to the offense via a letter to the courts, the BBC<\/a> <\/em>reports. The offense took place on March 7 on Addison Road in west Kensington, London.<\/p>\n \n\tOn Thursday morning (Jan. 2), the district judge Andrew Sweet criticised the \u201cVossy Bop\u201d musician\u2019s \u201cdangerous and irresponsible\u201d actions. The Wimbledon Magistrates\u2019 Court heard that the off-duty police officer knocked on the tinted window of Stormzy\u2019s Rolls-Royce Wraith and said: \u201cGet rid of your tints and get off your phone.\u201d<\/p>\n \n\tSweet banned the rapper, who was not present in court, from driving for nine months and fined him \u00a32,010 (around $2,500). The court was also told that Stormzy already had six penalty points on his driving license from previous offenses.<\/p>\n \n\tThe prosecutor Alice Holloway noted that in 2023, Stormzy had previously admitted to driving a Lamborghini Urus that had front windows illegally tinted to only 4% light transmission, violating the 70% requirement.<\/p>\n \n\tIn October 2023, Stormzy was stopped by officers on Coombe Lane, in Kingston upon Thames, London, having previously been warned about the windows. Stormzy\u2019s solicitor Peter Csemiczky said that his client accepted responsibility for the offenses and apologized. He added that the rapper had removed the tints.<\/p>\n \n\tIn 2024, Stormzy scored a No.1<\/a> on the U.K.\u2019s Official Singles Chart<\/a> with a team-up with rave duo Chase & Status. Their single \u201cBackbone\u201d hit the top spot in August 2024, while Stormzy released his most recent full-length LP, This Is What I Mean<\/em>, in November 2022.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n