West Ham United attacker, Mohammed Kudus
West Ham United attacker Mohammed Kudus was arrested by the police in the United Kingdom (UK) for using his mobile phone while driving his Mercedes around the team’s training grounds.
According to a report by standard.co.uk, when the player was questioned, he explained that he was setting up the Sat Nav function on his handset.
The case which happened on April 30, 2024, was heard this year when Kudus faced the Lavender Hill Magistrate Court and was convicted of using his phone while driving on the road.
The player was fined £220, given six penalty points on his license, and ordered to pay £110 in costs and an £88 victim surcharge.
Since the case was prosecuted through the Single Justice Procedure, Kudus will not appear in an open court hearing, as it was indicated that he did not enter a plea to the charge when the case was sentenced in private.
The police officer who caught Kudus in the act, James Palmer, narrated how he spotted the player using his phone while driving in traffic.
“I was filtering through traffic when I noticed that the driver of this vehicle was using a hand-held mobile device while driving. The device was being held in their left hand, in front of themselves. The driver was engaging with the phone; I could see the screen was illuminated, and the driver made repeated contact with the screen using their left thumb.
“They were using the device; their vision was engaged with the screen, as well as their thumb, and I could also see there seemed to be a delayed reaction to the gap increasing in front of them where traffic had moved off for the green phase of the lights,” the police officer recounted.
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