Romeo Beckham was caught by police scrolling on his phone while behind the wheel of his Porsche, with a dog loose in the car, court papers have shown.<\/p>\n
Beckham, 23, was pulled over in Westminster last September after an officer saw him with both hands on his mobile, instead of the steering wheel, while at a red light in the Porsche 911 Carrera.<\/p>\n
The court papers revealed he had a female passenger, who was also on her phone and had the “unrestrained” dog on her lap.<\/p>\n
Beckham was convicted last Thursday at Westminster Magistrates’ Court of being a driver not in a position to have proper control. He was fined \u00a3440 and given three penalty points.<\/p>\n
The model, the son of Sir David and Victoria Beckham, was also ordered to pay \u00a3130 in costs and a \u00a3176 victim surcharge.<\/p>\n
In a statement, the officer said Beckham was “distracted” and did not have proper control of the supercar.<\/p>\n
Metropolitan Police PC Luke Short saw him on 12 September last year, waiting at a red traffic light in Victoria Street, Westminster, just before 11:20 BST.<\/p>\n
“As I passed the vehicle on its nearside, I looked down to my right and noted that there was an unrestrained dog sitting on the female passenger’s lap,” he said in his written statement to the court.<\/p>\n
“I looked across at the driver. I saw that he too had his head tilted down and appeared to be looking down at a mobile phone he was holding low in his lap, near the base of the steering wheel.<\/p>\n
“I could see that he was scrolling on the device with his thumbs.”<\/p>\n
The officer pulled Beckham over and offered “words of advice” on the dog.<\/p>\n
Beckham was written to and given the chance to pay a fine and go on a driver awareness course to avoid criminal proceedings over the use of his phone, but did not respond.<\/p>\n
He was prosecuted through the single justice procedure, which handles driving offences in private hearings.<\/p>\n
He did not enter a plea to the charge when written to at his south-west London apartment and was convicted on police evidence last week.<\/p>\n
Details of the case only emerged on Wednesday.<\/p>\n
It comes almost seven years since his father Sir David was banned from driving for six months for using his mobile phone at the wheel.<\/p>\n
He told the court in 2019 a ban would mean he would not be able to drive Romeo and his siblings Cruz and Harper to school.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Romeo Beckham was caught by police scrolling on his phone while behind the wheel of his Porsche, with…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":38225,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[21181],"tags":[34042,34041,8406,21408,34045,34005,34043,34044],"class_list":["post-38224","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-porsche","tag-david-and-victoria-beckham","tag-mobile-phone","tag-porsche","tag-porsche-911-carrera","tag-proper-control","tag-romeo-beckham","tag-steering-wheel","tag-westminster-magistrates"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/germany\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38224","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/germany\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/germany\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/germany\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/germany\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=38224"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/germany\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38224\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/germany\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/38225"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/germany\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=38224"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/germany\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=38224"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/germany\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=38224"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}