I'm no fan of any pf the of the people that's gotten involved in the circus surrounding Katie Price over the years. And I just looked at that website that a PP linked, and the woman who's behind that is pretty fucking awful too. It's just an affair partner of KH with an axe to grind because she didn't get what she wanted. Seedy, the lot of them.
I haven't seen the judge's summing up and I don't know a lot about the evidence so I have no idea how shocking KH's conduct was. I would echo a PP about assuming someone is innocent just because they haven't been convicted by the court. Not meeting the threshold for conviction doesn't mean none of it was true.
I would be interested in hearing what the judge has to say. It sounds as if some of the court shenanigans won't ever be reported because what KP said was so outrageous. It's interesting that the judge refused to remove the jury as requested because he believed that KP would simply do the same to the next jury!
KH no doubt is a shitty partner. Awful. But he seems to have implied in his evidence that KP was the one grooming the child. And she's admitted to accessing his phone while he was drunk/asleep. I feel uncomfortable about a grown man befriending a 13 yr old even if "nothing happened". But that doesn't make him guilty of rape. Between his sleaze and KP's outrageous lies, I doubt we'll ever know what truly happened - but either way a young teen was taken advantage of. Awful.
He stressed during the trial that he was “attracted to older women” and accepted having affairs with three older women during his marriage with Ms Price.
During the trial, prosecutor Ryan Richter had put to Mr Hayler: “Your feud with Katie Price is not what this case is about, is it?”
He replied: “It is.”
Mr Richter went on: “This case is about you having raped a girl, isn’t it?”
Mr Hayler said: “I have not.”
During his evidence, the personal trainer told jurors he thought Ms Price was “coaching” the teenage girl after discovering messages she sent to her.
He took pictures of messages on Ms Price’s phone when they were together in which she talks to the girl about Hayler fancying her, adding: “I will make you a little star.”
Ms Price had told the trial the phrase was a “figure of speech” but Mr Hayler said it was a “very strange comment to make”.
He said: “Everyone can interpret it how they want, it’s very pushy.
“I thought she was coaching her into (saying) something she shouldn’t.”
Mr Hayler’s former partner, Michelle Pentecost, also gave evidence to the trial as a defence witness, telling the court about “numerous threats” they would receive from Ms Price during their seven-year relationship.
The 44-year-old told jurors: “All the time she’ll be throwing out threats, ‘I’m going to make everyone think you’re a paedo’.”
Elsewhere, it can now be reported that Ms Price’s first day of evidence during the trial led to Mr Hayler’s defence team calling for the jury to be discharged, accusing her of a “premeditated attempt to bring down this trial”.
In a legal application to the judge, barrister Arlette Piercy argued that evidence given by Ms Price resulted in an “overwhelming tsunami of prejudice to us which we are simply unable to deal with”.
Of Ms Price’s evidence, some of which cannot be reported for legal reasons, the lawyer said: “She then went on a deliberate, malicious and in my submission, premeditated attempt to bring down this trial.”
She added that “the significance of it was written all over the jury’s faces”.
Prosecutor Mr Richter disputed the argument and instead suggested it was from the celebrity witness “having lost control”.
Judge Mark van der Zwart dismissed the legal bid and instead later gave the jury a warning that what she said was “not correct and you must disregard it”.
In his ruling, the judge described Ms Price as “what barristers of a previous generation would have called a dangerous witness” with a personal agenda in proceedings and who was “liable to say something prejudicial given half a chance.”
“Discharging this jury was unlikely to prevent the same situation arising again at a re-trial,” he said.