Everton and England footballer Jack Grealish has been slapped with a £1,000 court bill after his £210,000 Lamborghini was caught running a red traffic light during a late-night drive in Liverpool. The 30-year-old attacking midfielder, currently on loan at Everton from Manchester City, was prosecuted by Merseyside Police following the traffic incident last September.

The force reported that Grealish’s luxury car was captured on camera breezing through a red light on the fringes of Liverpool city centre. He was subsequently prosecuted and found guilty for failing to inform police whether he or another individual was driving the car at the time. A magistrate at the local court in Liverpool issued Grealish with six penalty points on his driving licence during a private hearing last week and instructed him to pay a fine, costs, and a court fee totalling £1,044.

The incident occurred just after 11.30pm on September 12, the night before Grealish took to the pitch for Everton in a 0-0 Premier League standoff with his former team Aston Villa.

This comes as the England international announced this week that his 2025/26 season for Everton has been cut short due to injury.

He shared an Instagram photo of himself in a hospital bed post-surgery on a stress fracture in his foot, confirming a prolonged absence with the words: “Didn’t want the season to end like this but that’s football, gutted.”

In the criminal case brought against him, court records reveal Grealish did not enter a plea and the matter was dealt with last Thursday (February 5) in a single justice procedure.

Kevin Scott, the safer roads unit manager for Merseyside Police, told Liverpool Magistrates Court that Grealish’s distinctive sky blue sports car was captured on camera running the red light.

In a statement, he wrote: “At 11.36pm on September 12 2025, a Lamborghini motor vehicle… was travelling along Leeds Street/Vauxhall Road, Liverpool, Merseyside, when it passed the traffic signal 1.4 seconds after it had changed to red.”

Police dispatched a letter to a property in Manchester in September, requesting Grealish to confirm who was driving his car that night.

Mr Scott said police attempted to contact Grealish again with a letter sent to a £5.6million property in Cheshire in November. However, he said the footballer had “failed to comply” with the request to identify the driver.

A charge of running a red light was ultimately withdrawn by police, but Grealish was found guilty of failing to give information relating to the identification of the driver of a vehicle when required.

Magistrate Paul Farquhar imposed six points on the footballer’s licence, a fine of £660, and ordered him to pay £120 in costs and a £264 victim surcharge. Grealish was one of 2,101 defendants who were prosecuted and convicted last week for failing to identify a driver accused of road traffic offences, with magistrates doling out fines ranging from £1 to the maximum penalty of £1,000.