Rapper Ghetts Pleads Guilty to Fatal Hit-and-Run

Award-winning rapper Ghetts pleaded guilty on Monday to causing the death of a 20-year-old man in a hit-and-run collision in east London last October. The grime artist, whose real name is Justin Clarke-Samuel, appeared via video link from Pentonville Prison at the Old Bailey, where he admitted to causing the death of Yubin Tamang by dangerous driving on October 18.

Clarke-Samuel, 41, from Woodford in east London, was driving a black BMW M5 when it struck Tamang on Redbridge Lane in Ilford around 11:33 p.m. The impact threw Tamang high into the air, scattering the contents of his bag, before he landed on the road. Clarke-Samuel did not stop and continued driving east along the road, the court heard. Tamang, a student from Nepal and an only child whose parents had sent him to the United Kingdom for his education, died two days later on October 20. His family, who had traveled from Nepal, attended the hearing remotely.

In addition to the death by dangerous driving charge, Clarke-Samuel pleaded guilty to two counts of dangerous driving related to his actions earlier that evening and afterward. Prosecutors stated he had driven dangerously on Tavistock Place and other roads in Camden,...