KATIE Price is set to appear in court TODAY after being arrested at Heathrow and seen in a police van with a head bandage.
The former glamour model will attend the Royal Courts of Justice today after she was arrested on the Heathrow tarmac last night.
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It comes nine days after a High Court judge issued a warrant for Price’s arrest.
She flew from the UK to Istanbul on a British Airways jet just hours before she was due in court last Tuesday as part of her £760,000 bankruptcy fight.
A Met spokesman last night said: “A 46-year-old woman from Surrey was arrested at Heathrow Airport at 19:45hrs on Thursday, 8 August for failing to appear at court.
“She has been remanded in custody at a west London police station to appear at the Royal Courts of Justice tomorrow, Friday, 9 August.”
In a statement, she begged for her son Harvey’s “protection”.
She wrote: “I am aware that I am about to be detained at the airport which is obviously what the courts feel is necessary.
“I do hope of course for my son’s sake who is with me that they will allow some dignity and protection for at least his sake.”
Katie added: “This will be extremely disturbing for him to see.
“Whilst I understand the importance and severity of the matter I do feel like I am being treated like a criminal.”
The mum-of-five was ordered to make a one-off payment of £25,000 to creditors, followed by monthly instalments of £12,500.
Judge Burton said Katie failed to make the payments ordered by the court.
“She has no real excuse in failing to attend the hearing,” she said. “The reason for her absence is irrelevant.”
Katie was served an eviction notice ordering her to leave her £2million Mucky Mansion by the end of May as bailiffs swooped.
She was supposed to hand over her six cars – a Volkswagen Beetle, a Nissan, two Range Rovers, Suzuki Vitara and Infiniti FX50 – on July 5.
The star also indicated she would hand over her pink Range Rover but has so far failed to do so, the court was told.
She has been sunning herself in 31°C heat in the pricey hotel while getting a number of treatments done.
Katie underwent £10,000 worth of surgery on her eyes and under her chin in Istanbul after her usual surgeon refused to carry out the work for her.
A source previously revealed Katie extended her trip over fears she would be arrested with staples in her face following the surgery.
They told The Sun: “Katie’s actually extending her holiday and plans to stay in Turkey longer.
“She’s worried she’ll be arrested at the airport when she lands back in the UK and will have to go to jail before the metal staples are taken out of her face.
“She’s really worried she’ll be arrested in front of Harvey, and that would upset her.
“She’s better off hiding out in Turkey and recovering there.”
While she seems to be at rock bottom with her finances, Katie has a surprise plan up her sleeve.
In her latest autobiography, This Is Me, she wrote: “Bankruptcy doesn’t hold the same fear now I can see a way out of it.
“If material stuff is taken from me, I know I can earn it back.
“I will get into escorting if I need to, not to sleep with the men, just for company. To be on their arm. I think I’d be good at that.
“My mum would tell me I need to work on my table manners first though. And by the way, that is a joke.”
She was also embroiled in more drama after private messages were leaked between her and her sister Sophie.
Bombshell chats revealed she cheated on her then-fiance Carl Woods with a sportsman – only to get ghosted by him the next day.
Carl told The Sun last month that he was “devastated” by Katie’s actions, which he says happened in August 2022.
He claims Katie spent the night with the sportsman – who is pals with Prince Harry and Prince William – and denied claims in her book that he was the one who cheated.
Carl told The Sun: “You start to hate yourself. I couldn’t tell anyone about it because I looked so stupid.
“I couldn’t talk to my friends, my family about it, no one. So you start to hate yourself.”
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