Drink-drive ban for rapper Professor Green
Rapper Professor Green has been banned from driving for a year and ordered to pay £525 fine and costs after pleading guilty to drink-driving.
The 30-year-old was arrested on suspicion of drink-driving on November 3.
Bromley Magistrates’ Court was told that the star got behind the wheel of his Mercedes after being robbed of his £40,000 Rolex watch on the doorstep of his home in Tyrwhitt Road, Lewisham, south east London.
He got into his car because he feared his wife, Made In Chelsea reality TV star Millie Mackintosh, who had screamed and fled, was being chased by the attacker, according to David Hislop QC, defending.
Green, who appeared in court under his real name of Stephen Manderson, was found to have driven with 52 microgrammes of alcohol in 100ml of breath. The legal limit is 35.
The I Need You Tonight star confirmed his name, age and address and pleaded guilty to the charge.
He said he would take a drink-driver rehabilitation course so that his 12-month disqualification might be cut to nine months. His licence was also endorsed for the offence.
The rapper was arrested after police attended reports that a man had been robbed in Tyrwhitt Road at around 2.40am.
When officers arrived, they discovered that a Mercedes had crashed into a van.
Prosecutor Samantha Mitchell said police were alerted after a 999 call, made at 2.35am by Manderson using a mobile phone belonging to a passer-by.
She told the court: “The defendant was spoken to and explained he had been looking for the suspect of his robbery.
“He had driven his car to look for this person and, during the course of looking for this person, he crashed into a parked van, causing damage.”
The police realised that he was drunk and told him he would have to provide a specimen.
“However he was quite hostile,” Miss Mitchell added, and he was driven to Lewisham police station to be dealt with.
