Reality TV star Katie Price fined £880 for driving offences
12.03.2024 - 20:55
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Katie Price has been fined £880 for driving without a licence or insurance after she was spotted getting out of her car at a petrol station.
On Tuesday, magistrates found the reality TV star guilty of the offences after the court was shown CCTV footage of her stepping out of the driver's side of her bronze-coloured Range Rover.
The court heard that the offences were committed on the A14 at Kettering on August 2 last year.
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The former model, 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 Price guilty following a brief trial.
The court was told Price was caught on CCTV at an M&S petrol station forecourt. Police officers were standing near the entrance and saw her vehicle pull up at one of the pumps.
Opening the facts of the case against Price, prosecutor Cheryl Burridge said: "Officers were on a mobile patrol and they stopped at the service station. They saw a vehicle pulling into the service station by the fuel pump. She (Price) has exited the vehicle with an unknown male and a child."
As Price and the male walked from the vehicle into the services past the officers, the court heard, she was recognised and they "believed her to be disqualified from driving".
Price, 45, of Dial Post, near Horsham, West Sussex, did not show up for the hearing in Northampton. In her absence, the magistrates handed her an £880 fine and ordered her to pay £620 in costs, as well as a £352 victim surcharge. She has been given 28 days to pay the total amount of £1,852.
Finding Price guilty and imposing the