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She'll have been done for No insurance due to having a revoked license. The guidelines (https://www.sentencingcouncil.org.uk/offences/magistrates-court/item/no-insurance-revised-2017/) give it a starting point of Category C which is a band C fine and 6-8 points. Aggravating factors take it to a...

I had two mates who witnessed terrible accidents (in both accidents people died), one of them took ages before he could get behind the wheel, he suffered anxiety for several years after it. The other guy, who tried (but sadly failed) to rescue the driver from a burning car, got back behind the...

It is a relevant factor (as are her other children), but as the seriousness escalates it becomes less "playable"; The argument being that if she were serious about her children she would haver taken the opportunities to change (and she's had several). Her repeated re-offending shows a negligent...

Sooner or later she has to go to prison. She (or her legal team) cannot keep using the Mental Health/mother-carer/"I'll do rehab and will change" mitigation to avoid a custodial sentence.

Unpaid work is usually done in 5 hour sessions, one per week, where dod you get the 2.5 hours a week from ?

Jugs in the jug ?

I respect that argument but I think it's flawed;Unless she addresses her behaviour and coping strategies there will be a sixth, seventh, eighth time. Eventually she'll be up for causing death by dangerous driving and bereaved relatives will be asking "why didn't anyone stop her ?"

A second (or subsequent conviction within 10 years attracts a mandatory three year disqualification. In Ms Price's case the more serious offence is Driving Whilst Disqualified (possible imprisonment plus the addition of a further period of disqualification). The problem with imprisonment is...

I think the District Judge got it right, despite my initial thoughts. Firstly, if she had imposed an immediate custodial sentence (16 weeks is pretty much the maximum given the early guilty plea) no-one would have batted an eyelid and it would have been fully justified. However she would have...

Highly unlikely for such a short stay; she'd just be locked up for 8 weeks then let out with no support or help.

Your opinion is perfectly valid and a different bench might have taken a similar view and sent her straight down. I imagine the bench that dealt thought that there was a prospect of rehabilitation; I used to sit on the Drug Rehabilitation Requirement panel and I've seen drug addicts on their...

Having sat in the chair and dealt with quite a few of these offences I think the mags got it right. Her celebrity status and wealth is irrelevant with regard to severity of the offences and will have played no part in the decision; KP's ability to fund a trip to the Priory might have bearing on...