{"id":43396,"date":"2026-03-04T08:28:06","date_gmt":"2026-03-04T02:43:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/?p=43396"},"modified":"2026-03-04T08:30:07","modified_gmt":"2026-03-04T02:45:07","slug":"rapper-ghetts-jailed-for-hit-and-run-student-death","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/rapper-ghetts-jailed-for-hit-and-run-student-death\/","title":{"rendered":"Rapper Ghetts jailed for hit-and-run student death"},"content":{"rendered":"
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BBC:<\/strong> Award-winning rapper Ghetts has been jailed for 12 years for killing a student in a hit-and-run collision in north-east London.<\/p>\n

The 41-year-old, whose real name is Justin Clarke-Samuel, was sentenced at the Old Bailey after he previously admitted causing the death of 20-year-old Yubin Tamang by dangerous driving.<\/p>\n

Tamang, a university student from Nepal, died in hospital two days after being struck by Clarke-Samuel’s car on Redbridge Lane East, Ilford, on the evening of 18 October 2025.<\/p>\n

The court heard that Clarke-Samuel had been driving at more than 60mph in a 30mph zone when his BMW M5 hit Tamang as he crossed the road. He failed to stop at the scene.<\/p>\n

Judge Mark Lucraft KC also disqualified Clarke-Samuel from driving for 17 years.<\/p>\n

He said CCTV footage showed a “quite appalling litany of incidents” leading up to the fatal collision which were “simply shocking”.<\/p>\n

Outlining the facts on Tuesday, prosecutor Philip McGhee said Clarke-Samuel had been drinking alcohol on the evening of the crash.<\/p>\n

The rapper, from Woodford Green in east London, was said to be one and a half times over the legal limit.<\/p>\n

The defendant initially said he had drunk three glasses of brandy with a meal at a restaurant.<\/p>\n

The court was shown a compilation of CCTV of Clarke-Samuel’s erratic driving including footage of the moment he hit Tamang.<\/p>\n

The defendant had claimed he had driven dangerously because he feared someone was following him but no evidence of a pursuit was found in the footage.<\/p>\n

After the crash, an Uber driver saw what he initially thought was a “bundle of clothes in the road” and called 999 on realising Tamang was seriously injured, the court heard.<\/p>\n

Police found a damaged wing mirror casing on the road and traced the serial number to Clarke-Samuel’s vehicle. Officers later located the car near his home, with significant damage to the windscreen, bonnet and front bumper.<\/p>\n

In December, Clarke-Samuel pleaded guilty at the Old Bailey to causing death by dangerous driving and an additional charge of dangerous driving.<\/p>\n

In mitigation, Ben Aina KC read out extracts of a letter Clarke-Samuel had written apologising to Tamang’s family.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

BBC: Award-winning rapper Ghetts has been jailed for 12 years for killing a student in a hit-and-run collision in north-east London. The 41-year-old, whose real name is Justin Clarke-Samuel, was sentenced at the Old Bailey after he previously admitted causing the death of 20-year-old Yubin Tamang by dangerous driving. Tamang, a university student from Nepal, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":43400,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-43396","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-main-news","category-world"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43396"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=43396"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43396\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":43398,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43396\/revisions\/43398"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/43400"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=43396"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=43396"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=43396"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}