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Dizzee Rascal has been has been given a community order with a 24-week curfew and a 12-month restraining order for assaulting his ex-fiancee during a row over child contact and finances.
The 37-year-old Grime artist, real name Dylans Mills, appeared at Croydon Magistrates' Court on Friday (April 8) for the sentencing hearing.
He was found guilty of attacking Cassandra Jones after a trial in March.
A judge concluded at the time that the Bonkers hitmaker had been "abusive and aggressive".
During the trial, Wimbledon Magistrates’ Court heard he had pressed his forehead against hers before pushing her to the ground during the incident at a property in Streatham on June 8 last year.
The court heard that the musician was “frustrated” over custody arrangements and the pair had an argument when he dropped off their daughter at the property.
Mills, who split up with Ms Jones in February 2021, was said to have “barged” into the home, banged his head on a fridge three times while holding his son and began “screaming and shouting” at Ms Jones and her mother Dawn Kirk.
The court heard how Ms Jones began filming him but he took her phone from her and then took Ms Kirk’s phone.
Two neighbours were alerted by the loud shouting and police were called, a judge was told.
When the police arrived, Mills told officers "I’m the aggressor", but later gave a prepared statement in a police interview, denying the allegations and claimed he had been assaulted by Ms Jones.
Following the guilty verdict, Mills smashed a photographer’s camera outside court after knocking it from their hands and hurling it across the road.
Police initially said they were investigating but no charges were brought.
Ms Jones said the verdict showed "wealth and status cannot be used to silence women".
Dizzee Rascal released his debut album Boy in da Corner in 2003.
It earned him the 2003 Mercury Prize, and has since been considered a grime classic.
Follow-up albums Showtime, Maths + English, and Tongue n' Cheek were critically praised and certified platinum, with Tongue n' Cheek going platinum for sales exceeding 300,000 units in the UK
He has achieved the number-one singles Dance wiv Me, Bonkers, Holiday, Dirtee Disco and Shout.
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