Bankrupt Katie Price slapped with £880 fine after being caught behind wheel while banned in latest driving drama
KATIE Price been fined £880 after she was caught driving without a licence or insurance in the latest in a long line of motoring offences.
The reality star, 45, was captured on CCTV in a Range Rover on August 2 while driving on the A14 bypass in Kettering, Northamptonshire.
Price was due to appear at Northampton Magistrates' Court charged with driving without insurance and without a valid driver’s licence.
The case went ahead in her absence today and she was found guilty of both counts by JPs.
Price was fined £880, as well as a £352 victim surcharge and £620 court costs.
She was also handed eight points on her licence - bringing the total she now has to 11 - but she was not banned from driving.
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The former glamour model was banned from the road in December 2021 after being slapped with a two-year driving ban.
It came after she flipped her BMW in a drink-driving crash in Horsham, West Sussex, while heading to see a pal.
Price was also handed a 16-week prison sentence suspended for a year, 100 hours community service and ordered to attend 20 rehab sessions.
The ban was slashed by 24 weeks last April after she underwent a drink-drive reduction course.
But Price was reported to have had her licence medically revoked weeks later - meaning she was not allowed to drive at the time of her latest offence.
The court heard how she was seen on CCTV getting out of her car at an M&S petrol station.
A mystery man then got behind the wheel when they returned, it was said.
In the last ten years she has been banned from driving a total of six times.
Just last month, she was ordered to pay £398 in fines and costs after being convicted of speeding and driving a motor vehicle otherwise than in accordance with a licence.
The mum-of-five was clocked breaking the 70mph speed limit on a dual carriageway in a black Infiniti FX50.
It comes as Price continues to fight bankruptcy after running up debts of £3.2million.
She is battling to save her so-called Mucky Mansion from being seized and is next due in court in April.
Price is currently in a relationship with JJ Slater, who appeared on Married At First Sight.
The couple recently looked loved-up as they headed on a date night to a country music festival at the O2 in London.
PREVIOUS DRIVING CONVICTIONS
KATIE Price has been banned from driving six times in the last ten years after a series of infringements.
OCTOBER 2003: Escapes a speeding charge on a technicality.
JUNE 2008: Given three points for talking on mobile.
JULY 2010: Four points for speeding at 99mph.
SEPTEMBER: Three points for veering from her lane in her 7½-ton pink horsebox.
DECEMBER: Six-month ban after three more points for doing 83mph in a 70mph zone takes her total to 13.
AUGUST 2012: 12-month ban after failing to respond to two speeding tickets.
FEBRUARY 2018: Banned for six months for failing to give details about the person driving her speeding car.
JULY: Quizzed by police for getting behind the wheel while still banned. Says she thought ban was over.
SEPTEMBER: Crashes her £63,000 Ranger Rover while allegedly on her mobile.
OCTOBER: Held for suspected drink-driving. Spent a night in the cells.
DECEMBER: Charged over the drink-drive allegation.
JANUARY 2019: Three month ban for driving while banned.
FEBRUARY: Further three months after another driving conviction.
AUTUMN: Issued with sixth ban, this time for two years. Cut to 18 months on appeal.
MARCH 2021: Drives boyfriend’s Range Rover. An admin error meant an extra six months under totting up rules had not been added. Questioned by police.
SEPTEMBER: Arrested after turning over car
DECEMBER: Price banned from driving and given 16-week suspended sentence
JULY 2023: Model caught speeding on A417 near Gloucestershire. Her Range Rover is also seized by officers.
NOVEMBER: Price is convicted of driving without a licence by JPs at Cheltenham.
JANUARY 2024: The mum is slapped with a fine for the speeding offence on the A417.
MARCH: Price is ordered to pay another fine and handed more points on her licence after being caught driving without licence or insurance.
