She had to pay about a couple of hundred points in costs. However she has £7k of costs from previous cases that she hasn’t paid yet. How come she actually had a car to drive in the first place?
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Wot? She’s moving to the Costas lock, stock and barrel? 
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That wasn’t my intention starting this thread. My point is I fail to understand the logic of the punishment.
What is achieved with giving her a driving ban when it is evident that she has had a number of previous bans, so any lesson was not learned, and as she was driving while on a current ban, demonstrates that for her the punishment meaningless, and the rehabilitation required will not be achieved by applying the same punishment as has been applied a number of times previously.
As a deterrent for repeat offending, clearly her history shows this will not work; and for others thinking about the consequences to them of drink/drug driving, or ignoring of previously imposed disqualifications, then it doesn’t seem much of a punishment at all, therefore it is a low deterrent.
So… if there is no expectation of rehabilitation, no punishment for the crime, and no deterrent visible for others, then it has to be the wrong sentence.
Who has to be killed before she is stopped from driving?
If I get flashed doing 150mph, I would be lucky to escape a period behind bars. And that would be without any accident occurring, just being caught on camera. Yet Ms Price managed to roll her car while drunk, drugged up and disqualified!
It just doesn’t make any sense to me.
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I get fed up with reading about this attention seeking old has been who’s become a matyr to dodgy plastic surgery, and reading about her sentence just adds insult to injury.
Maybe the judge knows her on a more personal level 
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If past behaviour is anything to go by she won’t stop until she kills herself.
I see the police are disgusted and are looking to appeal the ruling. But it seems there is some rule that if she went to rehab she can avoid jail. Clearly this is why she went. She was tipped off.
Yep, and apparently the rehab is paid for by the public!
I think we are all entitled to our opinion and yours is just as valid/invalid as all the others in this thread.
But on the basis of current contributions and the fact that I think this forum has a pretty wide spectrum of society (other than loving MX5’s 
) you can relax on the basis that you would be the one jury member who would let her off.
I have no idea as I haven’t heard the evidence . And a jury establishes guilt , rather than deciding upon a sentence . But I don’t like misogyny any more than I like lynch mobs.
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Unfortunately John the facts speak for themselves and are quite probably the tip of the iceberg.
Perhaps you are taken in by her presentation manner which is very good and could be mistaken for credibility.
At the end of the day she has made numerous errors of judgment in many areas of her life that set a really bad example and can only lead to others suffering mental and financial harm. The woman is clearly a selfish, hedonistic liability.
It is weakness and the inability to judge these people fairly and accurately that leads society to where it is today. Are you subscribing to that given all of the history of this awful woman.
If anyone is acting against the interests of women it is Katie Price. Misogyny is a poorly placed accusation when this woman’s behaviour has been so bad over such a long period of time with so much indisputable evidence and formal judgment available.
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In this case, the sentencing hearing was heard in a Magistrates Court. There is no jury in a magistrates court, so there is no prospect of anyone on this forum casting a jury vote in a case such as Price’s. There was no trial either, as Price pleased guilty in September.
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Well maybe we can all pray for some Karma and next time she’s found in a ditch 3 weeks after she comes off the road…that would be justice …
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I wouldn’t agree with this sentence whether it was a Male ,Transexual, Black, white , Muslim or Christian, Vegan or whatever, and George Michael was banged up for a lot less.
This woman sets a Nightmarish example to all those gullible young girls who are addicted to following these self obsessed female social media icons and Influencers .
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I wouldn’t to wish harm on her. So, no, I will not be not be “praying for some Karma”.
I would hope, given the time of year, she gets the appropriate help.
I looked at her records. When someone said she had multiple bans, these bans were all due to totting up procedures (using a phone, speeding, running a red light.
Her second ban was due to forgetting to reapply for her licence afer her previous ban had expired. Her third ban was slightly unusual. She was discovered in the back seat of a car, while intoxicated. There was insufficient evidence to convict her of drink driving , and she received a ban for failing to disclose who the driver was.
I don’t think she should go to prison, and the police, if they appeal, are wasting public resources by essentially falling for the mob. If she should to go to prison, then anyone receiving a ban through totting up or driving under the influence ought to be incarcerated.
Given all that you say. We are still left with someone who was driving over the alcohol limit, with cocaine in her system, while banned from driving, who was driving wreklessly enough to have a one vehicle accident.
I am thankful it was a one vehicle accident and not with some other poor innocent party involved.
But again I would say, if nothing is done to prevent the situation arising again, it might be a different outcome next time; and so I agree with any police appeal. Personally I think that is a much better use of my tax money than where most of it seems to currently go.
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For me the more important story here is one of human pain, self harm and the inevitable collateral damage. We judge and are judged and the media feeds our prejudices supported by our own cognitive bias. I guess a considered analysis of what brings a person to this position, or what might help them, is not what sells. Personally I am an atheist, but listening to the words of Justin Welby recently reminded me that casting stones rarely ends well.
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I couldn’t agree more; Ms Price is undoubtedly troubled and deeply flawed , with a chaotic personal life. I suspect the reason she didn’t receive a custodial sentence may be to do with her son , who has profound learning difficulties.
The spectacle of a bunch of middle aged men queuing up to give her a metaphorical kicking is shameful. Is it the schadenfreude or the self righteousness which appeals more, I wonder?
‘Do unto others as you would have them do unto you’ is another useful mantra , especially at this time of year,
I agree she (and many others) arrive at situations in life where the world has overwhelmed them; and we should live in a society which provides support and rehabilitation to
A.Prevent things going wrong in the first place to a far greater extent than we do now.
B. Provide quick help to those who need help when things go pear shaped for them.
But, and this is my entire point all along, we must protect the public.
To draw a parallel, if a kid takes an assault rifle to their school and goes on a shooting rampage, no matter what sympathy we feel for the kid’s environment and mental health that drove them to that action - we will still be saying "How on earth was that kid able to get an assault rifle and ammunition? "
I suggest that those who have repeatedly demonstrated they are a danger to the public should be neutralised from possing that danger; and that there has to be some deterrent visible for others who may choose similar actions that endanger the public.
There is nothing personal in anything I have posted, my thoughts are entirely based around knowing I have provided many people with motorcycle training on the roads of Surrey and Sussex, and one less drugged or drunk driver on the roads is a good thing.
My sympathies with someone who crosses the line of legality/safety due to some personal emergency will run out if they have demonstrated that they refuse to learn from their mistakes and repeatedly put the public at danger.
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What would be your view if this had been a male ex model/minor celebrity? I suspect that most who have commented here would hold exactly the same viewpoint, or would have been even more critical.
Her ex husband has publicly stated that he thinks she was let off lightly. I notice that her further offence of driving with no insurance did not come up in court.
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And what about her so called friend who let her get into and drive a car while under the influence of drugs and drink? Whoever it was should have called a taxi for her. If this is the sort of “friend” she mixes with she needs to ditch them as soon as possible.