{"id":1701,"date":"2025-12-08T16:11:13","date_gmt":"2025-12-08T16:11:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/?p=1701"},"modified":"2025-12-08T16:11:13","modified_gmt":"2025-12-08T16:11:13","slug":"rapper-ghetts-admits-causing-death-by-dangerous-driving","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/?p=1701","title":{"rendered":"Rapper Ghetts admits causing death by dangerous driving"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div data-component=\"text-block\">\n<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 eZyhnA\">Award-winning rapper Ghetts has admitted killing a young man in a hit-and-run collision in north-east London.<\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 eZyhnA\">The grime artist, whose real name is Justin Clarke-Samuel, failed to stop after his BMW hit 20-year-old Yubin Tamang in Ilford, north-east London, in October.<\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 eZyhnA\">He also faces charges of causing death by careless driving when over the limit for alcohol, and another charge of dangerous driving relating to another incident on the same day.<\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 eZyhnA\">Clarke-Samuel, 41, from Woodford, east London, pleaded guilty to causing Mr Tamang&#8217;s death by dangerous driving, for which he is due to be sentenced on 12 February, when the other charges will also be dealt with, the court said.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div data-component=\"text-block\">\n<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 eZyhnA\">The court previously heard that following the fatal collision in Ilford at about 23:30 GMT, Clarke-Samuel continued to drive dangerously in Worcester Crescent, Redbridge, on the journey back to his home in Woodford.<\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 eZyhnA\">Police attended the defendant&#8217;s address in Woodford early the next day.<\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 eZyhnA\">The black BMW, registered and insured in the defendant&#8217;s name, was significantly damaged.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div data-component=\"text-block\">\n<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 eZyhnA\">Ghetts is a Mercury Prize-nominated grime MC, rapper and songwriter who has had high profile musical collaborations with major acts including Stormzy, Ed Sheeran and Skepta.<\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 eZyhnA\">He won the <a target=\"_self\" href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/entertainment-arts-59543140\" class=\"sc-f9178328-0 iCaRzc\" rel=\"noopener\">Best Male Act at the Mobo Awards in 2021<\/a> and received the Mobo Pioneer award in 2024 for his &#8220;significant contribution to British black culture&#8221;.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>#Rapper #Ghetts #admits #causing #death #dangerous #driving<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Award-winning rapper Ghetts ha&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1702,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[242],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1701"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1701"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1701\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1702"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1701"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1701"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1701"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}