Bankrupt Katie Price has hit out at an ‘a***hole’ MP who called on her to be jailed for repeated driving offences – as she claimed she offered to go to prison to ‘clear’ her debts.
The former glamour model, 45, was fined £880 last week after she was caught driving a Range Rover at a service station on the A14 in Kettering, Northamptonshire in August 2023 despite having no licence or insurance.
As well as being handed eight penalty points – taking her total to 11 – the mother-of-five was also ordered to pay £972 in costs on top of the financial penalty.
Conservative MP James Wild reacted angrily to the fact she was not jailed despite being banned from the road six times as part of a long rap sheet of driving crimes.
But Price has now hit back at Mr Wild on her podcast The Katie Price Show, where she fumed: ‘I don’t need to hear about some a***hole MP’s trying to get me in prison. That’s good for taxpayers isn’t it? What would they gain putting me into prison?
‘It would cost them more money putting me into prison than out, and then, I have asked to go to prison to clear it all but they won’t do it.’
Katie Price, 45, was fined £880 this week after she was caught driving a Range Rover at a service station on the A14 in Kettering, Northamptonshire
Conservative MP James Wild reacted angrily to the fact she was not jailed despite being banned from the road six times
Price at the petrol station on the A14 near Kettering in August last year where she was caught driving without a licence or insurance
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Sentencing guidelines dictate that driving without insurance and without a licence – known as driving otherwise in accordance with a driving licence – is liable for fines, penalty points and a potential driving ban upon conviction.
Neither offence is an imprisonable offence, according to the Sentencing Council.
But Mr Wild, MP for North-West Norfolk – close to where Price was caught illegally driving – has called for an overhaul to those guidelines.
He told : ‘The public would rightly expect repeat driving offenders to get maximum sentences for reckless behaviour. Unlimited fines can be imposed for driving without insurance and in some cases the vehicle being seized.
‘The £880 penalty in this case fails to recognise how serious driving offences are. Ultimately we need to look at custodial sentences for serial offenders.’
Price has now been declared bankrupt for the second time, and gave her live reaction exclusively to the Mail’s comedy podcast Straight to the Comments!.
Her second bankruptcy was revealed on Monday after she failed to pay over £750,000 in unpaid tax – and will now face losing her Mucky Mansion home unless HMRC can recover the money.
A judge at the High Court ruled that she be declared bankrupt after an official from HMRC said she has failed to pay any money owed or responded to any correspondence since the demand was made for the unpaid tax last year.
Price was speaking to Straight to the Comments! when the news broke, which embraces the hilarity and uniqueness of the comment section with the celebs in question, with her episode to air next week.
Price reacting to news of her second bankruptcy on the Mail’s comedy podcast Straight to the Comments!
Price was banned from driving for two years after she crashed her BMW on the B2135 near Partridge Green on September 28, 2021
When told there was a new story about her, she gasped in shock and said: ‘Has it? Oh get lost! Are you actually serious, while I’m sat here? What have I done now?’
After hearing that she had been declared bankrupt a second time, she said she had been signed off because of ‘serious stuff’ in her life.
She said: ‘I know I had court last week or the week before. Because of what’s going on in my life, I’ve actually been signed off because I’m dealing with serious stuff.’
Price went on to claim that she ‘doesn’t get away’ with not paying.
‘There’s all different kinds of bankruptcy, I think they just use the word bankruptcy,’ she said. ‘No one actually knows the ins and outs of everything.
‘And trust me I don’t get away with stuff either. Like you can’t – tax you can’t ever run away from, you have to pay. Don’t think I sit here and don’t pay stuff because I do.’
It is the second bankruptcy faced by Price as she is being chased by creditors for a £3.2million payment over the failure of her company Jordan Trading Ltd.
Price has a catalogue of driving convictions stretching back more than 20 years with six driving bans alone in the last 10 years.
The former glamour star turned OnlyFans model narrowly escaped jail in 2021 after she flipped her car close to her home in Horsham, West Sussex in the early hours of the morning.
Price had faced up to six months behind bars after she escaped injury while driving while drunk, driving whilst disqualified and driving without any insurance. She pleaded guilty at her first appearance.
Instead of the magistrates remanding her in custody for sentence, her solicitor gave the court an ‘undertaking’ that Price would go straight from the court to the Priory Centre and seek help for addiction.
When she came to be sentenced at the next hearing District Judge Amanda Kelly found her hands tied because Price had complied with the terms for her liberty accepted by magistrates. As a result she could not jail her.
CCTV showed Price getting out of the driver’s seat of her Range Rover to fill up with petrol
She was snared after being recognised by an off-duty police officer – prompting an investigation and sourcing of the CCTV that showed her stepping out of the driver’s seat
District Judge Amanda Kelly instead handed Price a 16-week suspended sentence, 100 hours’ community work and a two-year road ban.
She told her: ‘You appear to think that you are above the law. You have one of the worst driving records I have seen. You deserve to spend Christmas behind bars’.
But she told the court her hands were tied because Price had complied with terms set at a previous hearing.
‘The public may be appalled to know that I cannot send you to prison,’ she added.
Sentencing guidelines dictate that driving without insurance and without a licence – known as driving otherwise in accordance with a driving licence – is liable for fines, penalty points and a potential driving ban upon conviction.
Neither offence is an imprisonable offence, according to the Sentencing Council.
But John Scruby, from the Campaign Against Drink Driving, says the time had come for the courts to come down harder on Price after prosecutors said she had previously been handed five other driving bans.
Price claimed this week she did not go to court to be fined in person because she was ‘drained’ due to a shortage of ADHD medication
Mr Scruby told : ‘It’s absolutely ridiculous. It’s time that people realise that she is not going to listen and will keep doing this again and again.
‘She will carry on breaking the law and the only way to stop her is to put her behind bars.’
Price said she did not attend court to be handed a fine because she is ‘so drained’ without her ADHD medication.
Speaking on her podcast, she said: ‘I’m so drained at the minute. Behind the scenes there’s been court cases that I’m supposed to have gone to and I haven’t been able to mentally.
‘There’s a shortage of ADHD meds so I can’t get hold of any. They reckon they’ll come back in March.’
Representatives for Price have been contacted for comment.