KATIE Price has walked free from court again despite rolling her BMW while driving drunk, banned and high.

The 43-year-old former glamour model, from Brighton, was handed a suspended sentence after a court in Crawley heard she completed a course of rehab and has not committed any further offences.

District Judge Amanda Kelly told Price she could have killed someone and was lucky she could afford to check herself into the Priory when others were not so fortunate.

She described mother-of-five Price as incredibly selfish with no regard for the lives of others and described her driving record as appalling.

“Not everybody has the luxury of being able to check into the priory,” Judge Kelly told her. “It seems you think you are above the law.”

Price, who had been banned five times already, was given a 16-week prison sentence suspended for two years after the court heard she had a reasonable expectation of keeping her liberty.

Sentencing had been deferred after Price admitted drink driving while banned and had the right to stay out of prison if she went into rehab.

“The public may be appalled to know I’m not able to send you to prison today to spend Christmas behind bars,” Judge Kelly said.

“The law says you have a legitimate expectation you will not be sent to prison today.”

Price was extremely lucky magistrates chose to defer her sentence at the hearing in September, the judge said.

“If they hadn’t, you may well be losing your liberty today.”

Price was banned from driving for another two years, ordered to do 100 hours of unpaid work and 20 rehabilitation days and must pay £85 costs and a £128 victim surcharge.

She already owes £7,358 in fines and costs from earlier hearings.

She will be back in court again in January for enforcement action on the unpaid fines.

Prosecutor Jon Karani told the court Price had fallen into the passenger seat nearest the ground after rolling her car on September 28.

He said she told police she had been banned from driving four times, when in fact she had been banned five times.

“She said she was going to her friend’s house,” Mr Karani said.

“She told police ‘I know I shouldn’t have been driving but I did, I’ve been banned four times’.”

Roadside tests showed she had been drinking and had taken cocaine. Mr Karani said: “She said ‘I don’t care, it’s fine’.”

She made more admissions in hospital, he said. She told police: “I’m guilty, I had alcohol, I took drugs, I shouldn’t be driving.”

Joseph Harrington, defending, asked the court to keep her driving ban as short as possible.

“She had a crash,” he said. “It’s clear she was distressed and upset. She was taken straight to the Priory and complied with them there. This is a lady with an awful lot going on.”

Price was nearly twice the limit with cocaine in her system and banned from driving when she rolled her BMW on September 28.

She appeared in court the following day when magistrates deferred sentence.

The former glamour model used her social media to lash out before returning to court to be sentenced.

She accused the media of trying to goad magistrates into giving her a custodial sentence and hurled insults at her ex-husbands while continuing to post videos of her children and promoting her own merchandise.

A few days before her sentencing hearing, she posted: “It seems that at the moment the media won’t leave me alone and are trying to portray that I’m not taking this situation seriously. 

“Well I’m here to confirm that I definitely am and I don’t appreciate what seems to be the media’s attempt at goading the judge into giving me a custodial sentence.”

The night before returning to court, she posted video of her son Harvey looking forward to Christmas with his mother.

The driving ban she was serving when she rolled her BMW was due to end tomorrow (Thursday, December 16).

She walked free from court in September, despite knowing she was banned and objections from prosecutors.

Magistrate Julie Hutton decided to defer sentencing after hearing she would be checked into the £7,000-a-week Priory after leaving court.

Her BMW, was found on its side on the B2135 near Partridge Green, not far from her home which became known as the Mucky Mansion.

Debbie Jones from the CPS said Price lost control and crashed.

“She was located trapped in the vehicle by a witness who stayed with her until the emergency services arrive,” she said.

“She gave a positive roadside breath test and a positive reading for cocaine.”

Price was taken to hospital by ambulance after emergency services arrived at the scene around 6.20am.

When she pleaded guilty, her defence lawyer, Joe Harrington, said she was going through bankruptcy proceedings and feared her house might be repossessed.

“She is struggling with life at the moment,” he said.

Price accepted full responsibility and apologised for the crash in a statement released by her family.

“Kate acknowledges and takes full responsibility for her actions,” they said.

“She knows they were wrong and apologises.”

Price pleaded guilty driving while disqualified, driving without insurance and drink driving.

A charge of drug driving was dropped after she agreed to plead guilty to drink driving.

A spokesman for Sussex Police said: “Police responded to reports of a single-vehicle collision on the B2135 near Partridge Green around 6.20am on Tuesday, September 28.

“A woman was arrested on suspicion of driving while above the legal limit for alcohol and drugs, and has been taken to hospital to be checked over.

“The road was blocked temporarily while recovery of the vehicle was arranged.”