Katie Price fined for driving without insurance and a licence

Katie Price was found guilty despite failing to appear at Northampton Magristrates' Court

Katie Price has been fined £880 for driving without insurance and a licence.

Magistrates found the reality TV star, 45, guilty of driving a Range Rover on 2 August last year on the A14 bypass in Kettering, Northamptonshire, while disqualified from driving.

Northampton Magistrates' Court heard she was recognised by a police officer at a petrol station.

Price did not attend the hearing but had previously denied the charges.

She was found her guilty in her absence after a brief trial on Tuesday and also ordered her to pay £620 in costs and a £352 victim surcharge.

Magistrates were shown CCTV footage of the model, wearing black slippers, stepping out of the driver's side of her bronze-coloured Range Rover.

The model, of Dial Post, near Horsham, West Sussex, was given 28 days to pay the total amount of £1,852.

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 on 28 September 2021, and was also handed a 16-week suspended jail sentence for drink-driving.

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

A representative for Price has been contacted for comment.