Romeo Beckham caught on phone at wheel of Porsche – with unrestrained dog on passenger’s lap
Romeo Beckham caught on phone at wheel of Porsche – with unrestrained dog on passenger’s lap
Tristan KirkWed, June 17, 2026 at 10:32 AM UTC
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Romeo Beckham has been fined and received penalty points after being caught using his phone at the wheel of his Porsche 911, with an unrestrained dog also present in the vehicle.
The 23-year-old model was stopped by police in Westminster last September when an officer saw him with both hands on his mobile phone instead of the steering wheel while stationary at a red light.
Court documents reveal that a woman in the passenger seat was also looking at her phone, with an "unrestrained" dog on her lap.
The officer noted in a statement that Beckham appeared "distracted" and lacked proper control of the supercar.
At Westminster Magistrates' Court last Thursday, Beckham was found guilty of being a driver not in a position to have proper control.
Magistrate Phillip Jordan imposed a £440 fine and three penalty points on his licence. Beckham was also ordered to pay £130 in court costs and a £176 victim surcharge.
Romeo Beckham at the 2026 Met Gala (Getty)
The court case comes almost exactly seven years since his father, Sir David Beckham, was banned from driving for six months for using his mobile phone at the wheel.
In that 2019 case, the former footballer admitted being on his phone in slow moving traffic in the West End, and told a court he would miss driving his children – Romeo, then 16, Cruz, then 14, and Harper, then seven – to school while serving the ban.
Romeo Beckham was caught out by Metropolitan Police Pc Luke Short on 16 September 2025, while waiting at a red traffic light in Victoria Street, Westminster, just before 11.20am.
The officer said that he passed the Porsche 911 Carrera and assessed the driver as being "distracted" due to the scene inside.
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Kim Turnball, Romeo Beckham and Victoria Beckham attend David Beckham's Hollywood Walk of Fame Star Ceremony on 12 June (Getty)
"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 wrote in his statement.
"The female had her head down and was holding a mobile phone.
"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.
"I could see that he was scrolling on the device with his thumbs."
The officer pulled Beckham over and confronted him, and said he decided to use his discretion to offer the driver "words of advice concerning the insecure load, namely the dog".
Sir David Beckham was banned from driving for six months for using his mobile phone at the wheel in 2019 (AFP/Getty)
Rule 57 of the Highway Code sets out that dogs must be "suitably restrained" in a vehicle, and the driver can be prosecuted for driving without proper control or careless driving if it is assessed the animal is causing a distraction or affecting the quality of the driving.
Beckham's brush with the law came days after he had debuted a new platinum blonde buzzcut at a New York Fashion Week event.
Two days after the incident, Beckham made his runway debut at London Fashion Week at the H&M show.
Police say he was given the chance to pay a fine and go on a driver awareness course to avoid criminal proceedings over using his phone in the car, but he did not respond to the offer.
Beckham was then prosecuted through the single justice procedure, which handles driving offences in private hearings.
The court said that Beckham did not enter a plea to the charge when written to at his luxury south-west London apartment, and he was convicted on the basis of the police evidence on Thursday last week.
Source: “AOL Entertainment”
