Katie Price has avoided another speeding conviction after the case was dropped just hours before she was due in court. The former glamour model had been charged with exceeding a 60mph limit on September 13 and was also accused of failing to tell police who had been driving her £62,000 BMW on January 26.
The two charges were heard at a case management hearing at Crawley Magistrates’ Court on Monday, where they were dismissed as “no evidence was offered”.
The hearing was originally listed as being scheduled to take place on Tuesday, but was brought forward, reports the Mirror. READ MORE: Mrs Brown's Boys' Brendan O'Carroll halted Glasgow Hydro show after 'brawl' broke out in crowd READ MORE: Ronan Keating says he 'nearly fell off chair' after son Jack's mistake on Love Island Katie did not attend court as she's on holiday in Thailand at the moment with fiancé Carl Woods.
It comes after she narrowly avoided jail last month and was handed a community order instead following her guilty plea to breaching a restraining order.The mum-of-five was given a 16-week prison sentence, suspended for 12 months, with 100 hours of unpaid work and 20 rehab sessions to be completed within the next 12 months.She was also told to pay £1,500 costs at Lewes Crown Court.Katie had admitted she had sent a text to ex-husband Kieran Hayler in which she called his fiancée Michelle Penticost a "gutter s**g" in an explicitly worded text, which indirectly broke a five-year restraining order.She had been previously banned from indirectly or directly contacting Michelle following an incident at a school playground in 2019.Katie branded Michelle a "c***ing w**re" and a "gutter s**g" in the messages sent to her ex in January.When delivering his verdict on
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