Katie Price’s ex Kieran will warn their kids she is facing prison for hate texts to his fiancée Michelle
KATIE Price’s ex-husband Kieran Hayler will tell their two children she is facing jail for harassment if she is sentenced.
The former glamour model, 43, has been charged with breaching a restraining order relating to his fiancée Michelle Penticost.
Katie, who has Jett, eight, and Bunny, seven, with Kieran, was charged last week and will appear in court next month over a foul-mouthed text to Michelle.
Those close to Kieran, 34, believe he wants to see her locked up if she is convicted especially as she dodged jail over a drink-drive offence.
A pal said: “Kieran and Michelle have kept a dignified silence throughout this and, after learning Katie was charged, they hope justice will be served.
“Kieran thinks that if Katie has done something wrong, she needs to learn that actions have consequences.
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“He will tell their two children that if Katie has done something bad, she could go to prison.
“Kieran has always been honest with the children as he wants them to understand right and wrong.
“It has been a very stressful time for everyone involved and now they just want a resolution.”
The charge carries a maximum sentence of five years.
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Kieran previously told The Sun he would have been honest and told their kids she had been jailed when she was in court on a drink-drive charge.
He said in December: “We both as parents have to bring our children up to learn they should not break the law and that if they do break the law, it is the law and it has consequences.
“Bad things will happen if you break the law. If she had gone to prison, I would have explained that to the children.
“I am very open with them, and I’d have done it in a sensitive way, but I couldn’t tell them she had gone on holiday or anything like that.
“They’d have found out soon enough, and it would have meant prison visits.”
If she is found guilty, she could have 16 weeks added on to any prison sentence — with the offence said to have happened just a month after she was handed a suspended jail sentence for her drink-drive crash.
Katie was given the restraining order in 2019 following a bust-up at the school gates. It lasts five years.
She was arrested in January over the alleged text and spent 12 hours in a police cell.
Before her drink-drive let-off, Kieran told The Sun he believed prison could be a wake-up call for Katie.
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They were married for five years until 2018.
Katie, also mum to Harvey, 19, from her relationship with Dwight Yorke, plus Junior, 16, and Princess, 14, from her marriage to Peter Andre, is due to appear at Crawley magistrates, West Sussex, on April 12.
