West Ham United player Mohammed Kudus was arrested and fined for using his phone while driving.
The incident occurred on April 30, 2024, and Kudus was convicted in a private court hearing.
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.
