Katie Price has avoided jail time today for breaching her restraining order against her ex-husband's fiancé, Michelle Penticost.
The television personality pleaded guilty earlier this year to breaking her five-year restraining order by sending abusive messages to Kieran Hayler about his fiancée. 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.
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.
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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."
Price entered the court this morning after she was heard saying “suck my d***” as she made her way past reporters, one of whom asked her about the chance she could go to prison.
She was sentenced to an 18-month community order with 150 hours of community service with an additional 20 hours for breach of a suspended sentence for driving matters. She was also ordered to pay £1,500 court costs.
Judge Stephen Mooney told Price: "In my judgement, this offence was committed out of anger. The words you used were highly offensive and inflammatory so the breach cannot be considered minor.
"In my judgement, balancing the aggravating and mitigating and aggravating factors, the appropriate sentence is a medium level community order."
Price showed no emotion as the verdict was announced but she gave a brief smile as she left the dock.
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