West Ham star Mohammed Kudus pulled over by police for mobile phone use while driving

Police pulled over Mohammed Kudus a short distance from the West Ham training ground

Premier League striker Mohammed Kudus was caught by police using his mobile phone while driving his £100,000 Mercedes away from West Ham’s training ground.

The 24-year-old Ghana international was busted by a passing police officer while using his smart phone at the wheel of the vehicle.

Kudus was pulled over and explained he had been setting up the Sat Nav function on the handset in the incident on April 30 last year.

The Metropolitan Police offered a fixed penalty fine to settle the incident, and brought a prosecution when the footballer failed to respond.

At Lavender Hill magistrates court last week, Kudus was convicted of using a handheld mobile phone while driving a motor vehicle on a road.

He was fined £220, given six penalty points for his licence, and he was also ordered to pay £110 in costs and an £88 victim surcharge.

The incident was prosecuted in the Single Justice Procedure, meaning Kudus was spared having to appear at an open court hearing. Court records show he did not enter a plea to the charge when the case was sentenced in private.

PC James Palmer told the court he was riding a marked police bike at 1.22pm on April 30 in Wood Lane, Romford, when he spotted Kudus’ vehicle.

“I was approaching the set of traffic lights at the junction of Wood Lane and Whalebone Lane heading west”, he said, in a statement.

“I was filtering through traffic when I noticed that the driver of this vehicle was using a hand-held mobile device whilst 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.