Dizzee Rascal has escaped jail after he was sentenced to wear an electronic tag for 24 weeks as part of a community order for being found guilty of assaulting his ex-fiancee.

The grime artist, whose real name is Dylan Mills, was found guilty of attacking Cassandra Jones after a trial in March, with a judge concluding he had been “abusive and aggressive”.

The 37-year-old appeared at Croydon Magistrates’ Court wearing a green jacket, red cap, and a white t-shirt on Friday morning.

He has also been handed a 12-month restraining order, meaning he cannot visit Ms Jones, and will have to abide by an 8pm to 6am curfew for six months.

During the trial at Wimbledon Magistrates’ Court, the jury was told the rapper had pressed his forehead against Ms Jones’ before pushing her to the ground during the incident at a home in Streatham, south London, last year.

Mills, known for chart-topping singles Bonkers and Dance Wiv Me, was frustrated over contact with their two children and the former couple had an argument when he dropped off their daughter at the property.

The court heard he “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.

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The shouting became so loud that it alerted two neighbours and police were called, a judge was told.

When officers arrived, Mills said he was the “aggressor”, the court heard.

However, he later gave a prepared statement in a police interview, denying the allegations and claiming 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 but no charges were brought against him.

In 2020, the musician was made an MBE for services to music in the Queen’s Birthday Honours.

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