Katie Price avoided a custodial prison sentence today after previously admitted breaching a restraining order against her ex-husband’s fiancee.
The star has been handed an 18-month community order at Lewes Crown Court to carry out 170 hours of unpaid work after admitting breaching a restraining order by sending abusive messages to her ex-husband Kieran Hayler about his fiancée Michelle Penticost.
Sentencing, judge Stephen Mooney told Price: “In my judgement, this offence was committed out of anger.
“The words you used were highly offensive and inflammatory so the breach cannot be considered minor.
“In my judgement, balancing the aggravating and mitigating and aggravating factors, the appropriate sentence is a medium level community order.”
Katie was said to have smiled as she left the dock and headed home with her fiance Carl Woods.
After Katie avoided being sent to jail, we take a look back her past brushes with the law and what happened.
Driving whilst using a phone
Katie’s first brush with the law regarding a motoring offence happened in 2003, when the business woman was allegedly caught doing 70mph in a 40mph area.
Due to police failing to arrest her within 12 weeks she did not get in trouble.
Some five years later, Katie was convicted of talking on her phone while driving in 2008.
She received three points on her licence and was issued with a £200 fine.
The following year Katie allegedly broke a 30 mph driving limit and failed to provide the identity of the driver to cops. She was let off on a legal technicality by Brighton magistrates.
2010 was a busy year
First up in 2010, the OnlyFans user was convicted of speeding at 99mph in September 2009.
Her defence that she was attempting to evade the paparazzi was rejected by magistrates, and she was issued with four penalty points, fined £250 and ordered to pay £500 prosecution costs.
Police rebutted the excuse and said that there were no other speeding cars around at the time of the incident.
Then, in September that year Katie was convicted for failing to be in proper control, when her lurid pink 7.5ton horsebox veered into another lane in Sussex.
The equestrian enthusiast received a £1,000 financial fine, three penalty points and was ordered to pay £650 in court costs.
In December, the former I’m a Celeb contestant was banned for driving for six months, after she was caught speeding at 83mph in a 70mph zone in West Sussex.
Katie pleaded guilty to the fine but did not attend the hearing.
The mum was again fined £1,000 and given three penalty points on her licence.
This tipped her over the 12-point limit and result in an automatic six-month driving ban.
Driving bans and driving whilst disqualified
Two years after her first driving ban, the page 3 icon was barred once again from driving for a year in 2012, after failing to respond to two speeding tickets.
At the time she said that her mum was in charge of her post and that she did not see the prosecution warning.
This once again resulted in Katie exceeding the 12- point limit, and she was also fined £400.
In 2015, the Mucky Mansion star was convicted for failing to stop at a red light while driving, and given another three points on her licence, and a £700 fine.
Her third driving ban came in February 2018, this time for six months, after she was found to be doing 60mph in a 50mph zone in West Sussex the year before.
When the ticket arrived she already had points on her licence and failed to tell the police.
Katie was subsequently charged with failing to provide details about the person driving. She didn’t show up at magistrates’ court and was given a six-month ban, as well as a £750 fine.
In the summer of 2018, snaps emerged of Katie behind the wheel of her car whilst banned, driving her grey Ford Fiesta home from Gatwick, with her youngest children, Jett and Bunny.
The star handed herself in and told fans on social media that she was behind the wheel as she thought her ban was over.
The same year, Katie’s famous 4x4 crashed with another car, and veered into a hedge by the road.
She was arrested, breathalysed and spent the night in a police station. Charges of drink-driving her dropped due to a lack of evidence.
The following year, in October 2019, Katie was convicted of failing to produce details of the driver of the vehicle, and was given a two year driving ban, which was later cut down to 18 months.
‘You deserve to spend Christmas behind bars’
In the early hours of September 28, 2021, Katie flipped her Range Rover in a single vehicle crash, while still banned from driving.
After the incident, Katie confessed on Instagram : "I realise the damage my actions could have caused not only to another family, but to my own as well."
Sentencing the reality TV star in December 2021, District Judge Amanda Kelly told Katie she was lucky she wasn’t going to prison, as she had completed a rehabilitation programme at The Priory, following the crash near her home.
"You deserve to spend Christmas behind bars," Katie was told in court, as she was sentenced to 100 hours of unpaid work in the community and a 16-week prison sentence, suspended for a year.
A suspended sentence means that if the defendant does not break the law during that period, and adheres to other conditions, the sentence is usually considered fulfilled.
However, if the defendant commits another offence or breaks the law during that time period, a judge can order the sentence to be served in prison, in addition to any sentence for the new offence.
‘Gutter s**g’ message
At the start of 2022 - just weeks after receiving her suspended prison - spent 12 hours in a prison cell after being arrested for allegedly breaching a restraining order against her.
In 2019, Katie used abusive language towards ex-husband Kieran Hayler's current fiancée Michelle, 39, at the school gates, going on to be convicted of using threatening and abusive words or behaviour likely to cause harassment, alarm or distress.
The star was given a five-year restraining order that forbid her from contacting her ex-husband's partner, directly or indirectly.
Katie was married to Kieran from 2013 until 2021 and shares two children with the former stripper.
Kieran has since become engaged to mum Michelle, who he met at the school gates. The couple went on to welcome their first child together into the world in August 2021.
In January this year, Katie allegedly texted Kieran, 34, calling Michelle a "c***ing w***e piece of s***" and a "gutter s**g".
It has previously been heard how Katie claimed her text to her ex-husband may have been motivated by a social media post made by Michelle which the former model believed to be aimed at her - something Michelle denies is true.
The text message allegedly sent to Kieran read: "Tell your c****** whore, piece of s***, girlfriend not to start on me.
"She has a restraining order so shouldn’t try antagonise me as she is in breach and I’m sure she doesn’t want people knowing that she was having an affair with you behind my back. That gutter slag."
When delivering his verdict on Friday, Judge Stephen Mooney told the star how in his judgement the offence was "committed out of anger" and the breach could not be "considered minor".
"In my judgement, this offence was committed out of anger," he told the star at Lewes Crown Court.
"The words you used were highly offensive and inflammatory so the breach cannot be considered minor.
"In my judgement, balancing the aggravating and mitigating factors, the appropriate sentence is a medium-level community order."
Katie showed no emotion as the verdict was delivered but gave a brief smile as she left the dock.
Coming up
Katie will discover the punishment for allegedly speeding in her BMW just 11 days before her crash in September last year on July 5.
Last month it was revealed that the star's most recent alleged speeding offence would be dealt with remotely under the single justice procedure.
The former glamour was allegedly caught driving her BMW while over the speed limit in a 60mph zone near her mansion in Horsham, West Sussex in September last year.
Katie had been expected to appear at Crawley Magistrates Court in May regarding the alleged offence, but it will be dealt with remotely under the little-known Single Justice Procedure.
A single magistrate who does not have to be sitting at the court where a case is listed to be able to deal with it.
The procedure was set up in 2015 to deal with minor traffic offences and low-level fare evasion.
Defendants can make a plea online but if they plead not guilty they must turn up in court at a later date.
At the time of reporting, Katie is not to believed to have yet entered a plea.
Speaking in May, an HMCTS spokesperson said: "Her case has been adjourned. The next date is 5 July this year.
"I believe it is going to be in an open courtroom.
"No plea has been entered on the system.
"The next hearing will be at Crawley Magistrates Court."
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