KATIE Price’s partner Kris Boyson has denied threatening a police officer after a row with a press photographer.

The allegation, under section four of the public order act, came a day after Price was arrested by police who found her slumped in a drunken state in the back of her pink Range Rover.

Boyson appeared at Medway Magistrates’ Court on Tuesday charged with using threatening, abusive, insulting words or behaviour with intent to cause fear of or provoke unlawful violence.

He entered a not guilty plea during the short hearing and will face trial at the same court on May 31.

The alleged victim of the incident near Boyson’s home in Gravesend, Kent, on October 11 was a PC Blundell, according to court records.

It was said to have followed 30-year-old Boyson rowing with a photographer.

Price was arrested in her car in Greenwich, south-east London, in the early hours of October 10.

The 40-year-old was later convicted of being nearly twice the legal limit while in charge of the vehicle, and she was banned from driving.

Boyson had returned from a holiday with the former glamour model before attending court.

Price, who lives near Horsham, is due to appear in Crawley Magistrates’ Court on Wednesday accused of threatening behaviour outside a school in the village of Shipley on September 6 last year.

Boyson, of Haven Close, was released on bail.