Former glamour model Katie Price has been handed an 18-month community order at Lewes Crown Court to carry out 170 hours of unpaid work after admitting breaching a restraining order by sending abusive messages to her ex-husband Kieran Hayler about his fiancée Michelle Penticost.
Price, 44, pleaded guilty earlier this year to breaching the five-year restraining order against her ex-husband’s fiancée. Price sent abusive messages to Kieran Hayler about his fiancée, Michelle Penticost, in January, a court heard.
The 44-year-old had been banned from contacting Ms Penticost directly or indirectly under the terms of a restraining order imposed in June 2019. Price pleaded guilty in March and was warned she faced going to jail.
Price arrived at court in an all-green outfit clutching the arm of her fiance Carl Woods.
In a victim impact statement read to the court, Michelle Penticost said the impact of the restraining order breach by Katie Price had a “devastating effect” on her mental wellbeing.
She said: “The impact of what Katie has done is very upsetting, I feel threatened and intimidated.
“I feel demoralised and not wanting to go out. The language used made me feel scared. I felt it was an attack on me.
“The consequences are I feel she will attack me. I felt by having a restraining order it would make me feel safe but by someone breaching it it has made me feel very vulnerable.”
Nicholas Hamblin, representing Katie Price, said his client had pleaded guilty to the breach but she had been under a “misunderstanding” that the restraining order “worked both ways”.
He said there was an element of “provocation” and she had been “over-reacting as she felt she was being criticised”.
He added: “She has shown signs of remorse, she accepts an indirect breach.”
Mr Hamblin said that Miss Price had sought help for her emotional problems at the Priory Clinic.
He said she suffered from a “depressive disorder and anxiety”, and added: “Miss Price is learning to cope with her emotional problems and to not react in the way she has in this case.”
He continued: “She has two different personalities, the public one and the vulnerable one of being in the public eye and every day in the public eye no matter what she does.
“It’s perhaps a case of building someone up only to knock them down.”
He added that “there was a lot of good to be said” for Price and she was considered in a probation report to be at “low risk of reoffending”.
