Katie Price has failed to turn up to a court hearing over allegations of threatening behaviour outside a primary school as pictures emerge of her on holiday in Thailand.
The former glamour model was due to appear at Crawley Magistrates’ Court on Wednesday morning – but she was not in the country.
While the reason for Ms Price’s absence has not been confirmed, yesterday the 40-year-old was pictured taking part in a Thai boxing lesson in Thailand, according to photos shared by the MirrorAMP.
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District judge Amanda Kelly said Ms Price’s failure to turn up showed “a lack of respect” for the court system.
Ms Price is facing two charges of using threatening and abusive words or behaviour in Shipley, West Sussex, on 6 September last year.
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British Prime Minister Theresa May leaves after attending a Sunday church service in Maidenhead
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Dog walkers in Aston Rowant National Nature Reserve on the Chilterns escarpment, in Oxfordshire. Snowfall and icy conditions are expected to cause widespread travel disruption after temperatures plummeted as low as minus 15.4C (4.3F) overnight.
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A person walks past the frozen Sefton Park Lake in Liverpool after the UK had its coldest night of the winter so far as the cold snap continues to cause icy conditions across the country
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Police searching near the scene in Islington, north London where 17-year-old boy, Nedim Bilgin, was pronounced dead after being stabbed on Tuesday evening
PA
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PA
A Union flag flies from a pole in front of the Elizabeth Tower, commonly known as Big Ben, near the Houses of Parliament in central London. Despite the humiliating rejection of Prime Minister Theresa May’s Brexit deal, Britain is no closer to knowing the end result of its vote to leave the European Union. A raft of amendments to be voted on by MPs on Tuesday threaten to further muddy the waters as the clock ticks down to Britain’s scheduled departure from the EU on March 29
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Former engineers Derek Mack (left) and Mike Kelloway, both from the Isle of Wight, inside the remains of the Black Arrow projectile, the UK’s only rocket to successfully launch a satellite into orbit, are unveiled at a storage facility in Penicuik, near Edinburgh, after almost 50 years languishing in the Australian Outback
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Former Scottish first minister Alex Salmond makes a statement outside Edinburgh Sheriff Court after he was arrested and charged by police. No further details of the charge against the 64-year-old have been released. A Police Scotland spokeswoman said: “We can confirm that a 64-year-old man has been arrested and charged, and a report will be sent to the procurator fiscal
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A couple walk through a park, in High Wycombe, as some areas of the UK see the first snow of the year
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Sussex Police said there had been a verbal altercation outside a primary school in the village.
At the hearing, which was adjourned to 20 March, Judge Kelly said: “She hasn’t bothered to turn up today.
“Apparently she has something more important to do.”
Ms Price had been sent a postal requisition on 7 February informing her of the need to attend the hearing, the court heard.
She would have known about the case but had not turned up to police interviews about the matter.
In response, Judge Kelly said: “This shows a lack of respect for the whole court system”, adding that while it would be “tempting” to consider an arrest warrant, she was not going to do that as the penalty for the offence was a fine.
She said she would “reluctantly” adjourn the hearing until next week when Ms Price is back in the country,
This is the third time this year Ms Price has been in court. Last month she was given a driving ban after being convicted of being nearly twice the limit while in charge of her pink Range Rover.
In January she received another driving ban after admitting driving while disqualified and without insurance. She was also ordered to pay fines for the unrelated offences.
Additional reporting by PA
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