Jermain Defoe sentencing delayed over phone driving offence
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Jack Lefley12 April 2012
England football star Jermain Defoe will be sentenced next month for using a hand-held mobile phone while driving.
The Tottenham striker entered a written guilty plea at a hearing in August and his sentence will be decided by a district judge sitting in Chelmsford, Essex, on October 15.
Defoe, 27, of Cuffley, Hertfordshire, used the phone while driving a Range Rover in Loughton, Essex, in October 2009, a court heard.
He had been due to be sentenced by Chelmsford magistrates today but the hearing was adjourned.
