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Katie Price avoided jail again today, as she walked free from court after claiming she 'misunderstood' the rules of a restraining order when she sent a 'vile and nasty' message about her ex-husband's fiancee.

The former glamour model faced the prospect of a stint behind bars after admitting the breach, when she sent a text to Kieran Hayler, branding Michelle Penticost a 'gutter s**g'.

The 44-year-old former I'm A Celeb star was banned from contacting Miss Penticost directly or indirectly for five years in June 2019 after hurling a foul-mouthed 'tirade of abuse' at her during a row in a school playground.

The message read: 'Tell your c***ing w***e piece of s**t girlfriend not to start on me.

'She has a restraining order so shouldn't try antagonise me as she is in breach and I'm sure she doesn't want people knowing that she was having an affair with you behind my back. That gutter s**g.'

But at Lewes Crown Court today Price was told she would not be going to prison, but would have to do 170 hours of community service and pay £1,500 costs.

Mr Hayler and Miss Penticost said this morning: 'We are incredibly disappointed with the result of today's court hearing. 

'We feel a custodial sentence would have sent the right message to the public given the seriousness of Miss Price's offending.' 

Earlier in a hearing, Miss Penticost said in a victim impact statement how the impact of the restraining order breach by 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 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 added: 'She has shown signs of remorse, she accepts an indirect breach.'

Mr Hamblin said that 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'.

Price was arrested at her home by officers at around 5.45pm on January 21 and taken to Worthing police station.

After a 12-hour interrogation she was released, though not before officers confiscated her phone, which they examined for evidence.

At an earlier hearing Crawley Magistrates Court was told Price sent the 'vile and nasty' message after Michelle Penticost uploaded an Instagram post about how to deal with people who were treating you badly.

The court heard there was a history of 'clear antagonism' between Miss Price and Miss Penticost.

Last year Price was handed a 16 week suspended sentence after crashing her BMW X5 while drunk last September.

Price then dodged a potential jail term in January after £7,358 fines she owed for driving offences were paid at the last minute.

She now faces a fresh allegation of speeding which is due to be heard before magistrates in July.

Earlier this year Price again avoided jail after striking a last-minute deal to pay off her bankruptcy debts.

The 44-year-old was scheduled to appear before the High Court to explain why she hadn't paid back £2.3m she owed after being declared bankrupt in 2019.

But the former model had her bankruptcy hearing postponed for a second time after agreeing an 11th-hour deal to pay back the money.

It comes after Price was pictured cutting a solemn figure as she left her make-up masterclass in London after a low turnout last night.

The former glamour model has been hosting masterclasses for fans around the country as of late, also taking part in a class in Leicester on Wednesday afternoon.

She was picked up from former Big Brother star Aisleyne Horgan-Wallace's Fakin' It salon by fiancé Carl Woods, 33, after the class.

Price was seen laden with pink and red gift bags and a beige featured handbag as she left the shop.

She wore a brown tracksuit with a short-sleeved top and a pair of pink trainers with white souls.

The former Celebrity Big Brother winner shielded her eyes behind a pair of sunglasses as she made her way to Woods' car. 

The former I'm A Celebrity... Get Me Out of Here! campmate appeared to have only a handful of attendees for her London outing, with some fans posing for pictures outside the salon before the event.

She was seen gathering her belongings inside the salon after hosting the masterclass.

Price admitted earlier this year she 'hit rock bottom' after her horrific drink and drug- fuelled crash.

In scenes from her Channel 4 series Katie Price's Mucky

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