{"id":546957,"date":"2026-04-23T19:30:09","date_gmt":"2026-04-23T19:30:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/546957\/"},"modified":"2026-04-23T19:30:09","modified_gmt":"2026-04-23T19:30:09","slug":"skepta-cleared-of-high-wycombe-drug-driving-charge","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/546957\/","title":{"rendered":"Skepta cleared of High Wycombe drug-driving charge"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">District Judge Arvind Sharma explained that the quantity of THC in the sample needed to meet the criminal standard in order to prosecute.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The expert could not be sure the &#8220;reading is accurate&#8221;, Sharma said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">PC Talan O&#8217;Neill, the Thames Valley Police officer who stopped the musician, said he had seen Adenuga overtaking a vehicle on the outside lane while travelling above the 30mph (48km\/h) speed limit.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">After he pulled over, the officer noticed a &#8220;smell of cannabis&#8221; in the rapper&#8217;s Mercedes-Maybach and conducted a roadside test at 10:54 GMT.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Prosecutor Lucy Curran said he was taken to a police station after the sample came back positive.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The court was told Adenuga, who lives in High Wycombe in Buckinghamshire, was compliant throughout the process.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">He was also accused of travelling at 37mph in a 30mph zone (59km\/h in a 48km\/h zone) in his Rolls-Royce Phantom on 20 November 2023, and failing to supply information to Thames Valley Police relating to the driver of the vehicle.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The judge also dismissed these matters, after Curran said the crown would not be offering further evidence.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The artist, known for songs such as That&#8217;s Not Me, has had two top 10 UK singles and three top 10 albums.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"District Judge Arvind Sharma explained that the quantity of THC in the sample needed to meet the criminal&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":546958,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[96,59,56,54,55],"class_list":{"0":"post-546957","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-entertainment","8":"tag-entertainment","9":"tag-gb","10":"tag-uk","11":"tag-united-kingdom","12":"tag-unitedkingdom"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/546957","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=546957"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/546957\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/546958"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=546957"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=546957"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=546957"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}