Stormzy has been fined more than £500 after being caught using a mobile phone while driving his £400,000 Ferrari in London. The rapper, 32, was pulled over by a Metropolitan Police constable after he was spotted typing an address into his phone’s map application while in stationary traffic.
He admitted the offence at the roadside last November near his home in Kingston upon Thames, south-west London. Stormzy pleaded guilty to not having proper control of his vehicle and was fined £533 at Croydon Magistrates’ Court. Magistrate Lynn Keane also ordered him to pay £120 costs and a £213 victim surcharge, and handed him three penalty points for his driving licence.
This is the second time the music superstar has fallen foul of the law for 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.
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. 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.
