Former glamour model turned television personality Katie Price has been convicted of being drunk in charge of a motor vehicle.
Having previously pleaded not guilty to the offence, her trial was heard yesterday at Bexley Magistrates' Court, with District Judge Nigel Dean presiding.
The offence was committed in Woolwich in the early hours of 10th October 2018.
PCs Benjamin Jones and Balvinder Mann of the British Transport Police noticed Price's distinctive pink Range Rover veering off the road and hitting the grass verge.
About 15 minutes later the officers came across the accident damaged vehicle parked in a side street off Shooters Hill Road.
PC Jones told the court that he approached the vehicle to find Price in the back with her friend, Kris Boyson, in the passenger seat.
"Her eyes were blurred and her speech was a bit slurred. Although she was sitting, it was in a slumped position," he said.
Both Price and Boyson claimed a third person ran off with the keys after an argument, but this proved not to be the case when Price subsequently handed the keys to another police officer.
Price was arrested and subsequently provided an evidential specimen of breath containing 69 microgrammes of alcohol in 100 millitres of breath, the legal limit being 35 microgrammes.
Price, of Horsham, West Sussex blamed Boyson for not revealing the identity of the person who was supposedly driving the £130,000 car at the time of the incident.
She told the court that she had allowed the stranger, who was friends with Boyson, to drive the car back towards Boyson's home in Bluewater.
But the judge found she had been in possession of the key fob at the time of the arrest, during which police saw the engine, lights and heating come on.
Judge Dean said: "I did not find her (Price) to be a plausible or credible witness."
A separate charge of driving whilst unfit through drink was dismissed due to insufficient evidence.
On the drunk in charge, Price was disqualified from driving for 3 months, fined £1,500, ordered to pay a victim surcharge of £150 and prosecution costs of £775.
Speaking outside court after the hearing, a seemingly unashamed Price said: "It adds on to my disqualification I'm already on, which means I get my driving licence back on the 24th of May, which means I can go car shopping - let's ban the pink car."
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