Katie Price given suspended jail sentence for drink-driving

  • 12/15/2021
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The former model Katie Price has received a 16-week suspended jail sentence and been banned from driving for two years after she admitted drink-driving while disqualified and without insurance after a crash near her home in Sussex. Price, 43, flipped her car on the B2135 near Partridge Green, near Horsham, at about 6.20am on 28 September while driving to see a friend. The following day, she admitted all charges at Crawley magistrates court, where she was sentenced on Wednesday. After the collision, Price told police: “I took drugs, I should not be driving, I admit it all.” She was arrested at the scene and taken to hospital. A drugs wipe gave a positive reading for cocaine and a roadside breath test was positive for alcohol, the court heard. An image shared by police from the scene showed a car flipped on its side. The district judge Amanda Kelly described Price’s behaviour as “incredibly selfish” and said she was lucky to not be going to prison. Kelly said she showed “no concern for the lives of others” and she “could have easily killed somebody”. “You appear to think you are above the law,” the judge told Price. Kelly also said Price, who has been banned from driving on five previous occasions, had “one of the worst driving records I have seen”. As well as a suspended sentence and driving ban, Price was also given 100 hours of unpaid work, 20 sessions of rehabilitation work with probation and ordered to pay £213 in costs. She already owed the court £7,358, the court was told. Price admitted the offences at a previous hearing on 29 September. At that hearing, her sentencing was adjourned on the condition that she had treatment at the Priory Centre and did not commit any further offences. She was also banned from driving in the interim.

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