Shop boast Price given drunk in charge ban

FORMER GLAMOUR model Katie Price received another driving ban after she was convicted of being nearly twice the limit while in charge of her pink Range Rover.

Police found the 40-year-old slurring her words and slumped in the back of her car in a “very” drunken state in Greenwich, south-east London, in the early hours of October 10.

She told Bexley Magistrates’ Court yesterday that a mystery man had earlier driven her car, but Judge Nigel Dean found she was not a “plausible” witness.

He found her guilty of being in charge of the vehicle while over the legal limit, but ordered a charge of drink-driving to be dropped because prosecutors offered insufficient evidence.

Judge Dean banned her from driving for three months, adding to the ban from earlier this year for driving while disqualified.

Price acted triumphantly outside court, telling reporters: “It adds on to my disqualification I’m already on, which means I get my driving licence back on the May 24, which means I can go car shopping – let’s ban the pink car.”

Police officers saw her car veer off Shooter’s Hill and hit a grass verge at 12.40am before seeing it stationary about 15 minutes later.

She was in the back of the Range Rover, which had damage to the bumper and shrubbery attached to it, as well as vomit.

Price was found to have 69 microgrammes of alcohol per 100 millilitres of breath. The legal limit is 35 microgrammes.

Along with a £1,500 fine, she was ordered to pay costs and a victim surcharge that brought her total bill to £2,425.