Katie Price was caught on CCTV pulling into a petrol station despite being banned from driving.
The reality star was fined on Tuesday (March 12) after being found guilty of driving without a licence and without insurance. A court heard how the 45-year-old was recognised by a police officer at a petrol station.
In footage from the incident, Price was captured leaving her gold Range Rover on CCTV. She was at the M&S petrol garage in Kettering, Northamptonshire.
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After leaving her car, she could then be seen passing the police on the forecourt with her male pal to enter the shop. Once they left the shop inside the garage, Price’s friend then gets in the driver’s seat of the Range Rover instead and swaps places.
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PC Harrison Beverley spotted the star getting out of the driver’s seat when he was standing outside the M&S with a colleague. He said he recognised Price as a “media personality.” He then reported her as he believed she was disqualified.
Price, who found fame on ITV reality show I’m A Celebrity… Get Me Out Of Here!, had previously denied both motoring charges. But three magistrates found her guilty in her absence after a brief trial on Tuesday, imposing an £880 fine and ordering her to pay £620 in costs and a £352 victim surcharge.
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Price, of West Sussex, was given 28 days to pay the total amount of £1,852, imposed in relation to the offences committed on the A14 at Kettering on August 2 last year. Finding Price guilty and imposing the fine, chair of the bench Neil Sheppard said: “From the evidence we have been shown, the case is proven against Miss Price.”
Magistrates were told Price has numerous previous convictions for motoring offences, including driving while disqualified in 2019 and 2021. Price was banned from driving for two years after she crashed her BMW in September 28 2021, and was also handed a 16-week suspended jail sentence for drink-driving.
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During that court appearance, the prosecutor said Price had five previous driving bans. The latest court hearing took place weeks after a High Court judge ruled that Price will lose nearly half of her monthly income from adult entertainment website OnlyFans for the next three years – after she was declared bankrupt in November 2019.
Following the latest offence, Price was handed eight penalty points on her licence, which was said in court to be “expired” after a “medical stop” was placed on it in April last year.
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