Overview
- Stormzy was stopped after a Metropolitan Police officer saw him input a destination into a maps app in stationary traffic on 10 November and later entered a written guilty plea handled under the Single Justice Procedure on 7 May.
- The court ordered a £533 fine, £120 in costs, a £213 victim surcharge and three penalty points, leaving a total bill of £866 to be paid within one month.
- This is a separate offence from a March 2024 incident that led to a nine-month driving ban and a larger £2,010 court bill imposed in January 2025 for phone use and an extra tinted-windows charge.
- The arresting constable, Pc Glen Lambert, said he saw the driver ‘distracted and no longer in proper control’ and observed the driver inputting an address on the phone’s maps application.
- Court figures show 1,195 motorists were prosecuted in the past month for phone use or not having proper control, resulting in almost £180,000 in fines and 58 driving bans and underscoring how the Single Justice Procedure is used to dispose of many motoring cases privately.