The Blues star has received a £1,000 court bill
09:58, 11 Feb 2026Updated 10:54, 11 Feb 2026
Jack Grealish landed with £1,000 court bill after Lamborghini ran red light(Image: Jan Kruger/Getty Images)
Everton and England star Jack Grealish has received a £1,000 court bill after his Lamborghini ran a red traffic light. The 30-year-old footballer, who is currently on loan at the Toffees from Manchester City, was prosecuted by Merseyside Police after the traffic incident on Leeds Street in September 2025.
The force said Grealish’s £210,000 supercar was caught on camera going through a red light on the outskirts of the city centre. The incident happened just after 11.30pm on September 12 – the night before Grealish played for the Blues in a 0-0 draw with his former side Aston Villa.
He was prosecuted and convicted for failing to tell police if he, or another person, was at the wheel of the car at the time.
A magistrate in Liverpool handed Grealish six penalty points for his driving licence in a closed-door hearing last week and ordered him to pay a fine, costs, and a court fee totalling £1,044.
In the criminal case brought against him, court records show Grealish did not enter a plea and the matter was dealt with last Thursday in a single justice procedure.
The single justice procedure is a controversial fast-track process for adult defendants accused of minor offences. The case is tried by written evidence without a formal courtroom hearing.
Kevin Scott, the safer roads unit manager for Merseyside Police, told Liverpool Magistrates’ Court that Grealish’s distinctive sky blue sportscar was caught on camera running the red light.
His statement said: “At 11.36pm on September 12 2025, a Lamborghini motor vehicle… was travelling along Leeds Street/Vauxhall Road, Liverpool, Merseyside, when it passed the traffic signal 1.4 seconds after it had changed to red.”
Police sent a letter to a property in Manchester on September, asking Grealish to confirm who was driving his car that night.
Mr Scott said police attempted to contact Grealish again with a letter sent to a £5.6 million property in Cheshire in November.
But he said the footballer had “failed to comply” with the request to identify the driver. A charge of running a red light was ultimately withdrawn by police, but Grealish was found guilty of failing to give information relating to the identification of the driver of a vehicle when required.
Magistrate Paul Farquhar gave the footballer six points on his licence, a fine of £660, and ordered him to pay £120 in costs and a £264 victim surcharge.
The England international, who has made 39 appearances for his country, became the most expensive British player ever following his £100m transfer to Man City in 2021.
He confirmed last week that his season had ended by injury. He posted an Instagram image of himself in a hospital bed after surgery on a stress fracture in his foot, confirming a lengthy layoff with the words: “Didn’t want the season to end like this but that’s football, gutted.”
Grealish was among 2,101 defendants who were prosecuted and convicted last week for failing to identify a driver accused of road traffic offences, with magistrates handing out fines ranging from £1 to the maximum penalty of £1000.
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