Katie Price’s fiance Carl Woods, 33, is charged with using threatening and abusive behaviour 

Katie Price‘s fiance Carl Woods has been charged with using threatening and abusive behaviour towards her during an incident at their house in Essex.

Police confirmed today that the 33-year-old, who is engaged to the reality star, had been charged under section 4 of the Public Order Act.

He is due to appear before magistrates in Colchester on March 10. 

Mr Woods was arrested last year after the former model was allegedly punched in the face at her home.

Police were called to the property at around 1.30am on August 23, where he was held on suspicion of assault, theft and coercive and controlling behaviour.

Ms Price was taken to hospital and was pictured the following day with bruises to her face and an injured lip.

This evening, he posted a cryptic message on Instagram, saying: ‘Now it’s my turn. Everything I say I have proof.’ 

An Essex Police spokesman said today: ‘A man arrested following an incident in Little Canfield, on August 23 2021, has been charged.

‘Carl Woods, 33, of The Meadows, Dunmow Road, Little Canfield, has been charged under Section 4 of the Public Order Act.

‘He is due to appear at Colchester Magistrates Court on March 10.’

A few weeks after police were called to the home in August, Mr Woods told followers they will ‘know the truth’ in an Instagram story.

He filmed a video from his car in which he revealed how the last few weeks have been ‘the roughest of my life’.

Mr Woods said he’d gone into ‘hiding’, and insisted he would ‘never, ever’ hurt the glamour model, claiming he was a ‘good fella’.

Yesterday, the couple were pictured together heading out to the pricey Sheesh restaurant in Chigwell, to celebrate Mr Woods’ 33rd birthday. 

Beaming broadly as she made her way into the eatery, she unveiled her new look following another eye and brow lift at a clinic in Belgium.

The mother-of-five had previously been concealing her new look with her head in a bandage. 

It comes after Ms Price avoided jail for the second time in weeks on Monday after striking a last-minute deal to pay off her debts.

The 43-year-old was scheduled to explain to a High Court judge her attempts to pay back £2.3million she owed after being declared bankrupt in 2019.

But the former model – who dodged a potential jail term last month after £7,300 fines she owed for driving offences were paid – had her bankruptcy hearing postponed for a second time after agreeing an 11th-hour deal to pay back the money.

She will pay a ‘small contribution’ to reduce the amount owed to creditors and has agreed to a new regular payment plan.  

The reality star risked being sent to prison for contempt of court if she failed to appear at the hearing – which was due to be held remotely – without notifying the judge.  

The ex-glamour model, who once had a fortune of £45million, has lurched from one crisis to another in recent years.

In December she was given a 16-month prison sentence suspended for a year after pleading guilty to drink driving.

Magistrates said they were unable to send her to prison as she had completed a stay at The Priory having agreed to attend the rehab centre on her first court appearance.

Price had flipped her BMW X5 while driving to see a friend near her Sussex home. It was her ninth driving offence.

She dodged a potential jail term last month after £7,300 fines she owed for driving offences were paid. 

Price had been listed to appear at Crawley Magistrates’ Court in January over non-payment of £7,358 in fines dating back two years.

However, last month court staff confirmed the fines had been paid and Price was no longer expected in court.

She had been issued with a court summons after magistrates heard she had failed to pay back a single penny of her fines.

The threat of prison still hangs over the mum of five as last month she breached a restraining order taken out against her by her ex-husband Kieran Hayler’s fiancée.

Price sent a series of vile texts to Michelle Penticost in breach of a restraining order.

She had been handed a five-year restraining order forbidding her from contacting Ms Penticost directly or indirectly in 2019 after hurling a ‘tirade of abuse’ at her,. She could now face up to five years in prison if she is charged and found guilty.

Drink-driving campaigners said they were ‘gobsmacked’ by the ‘unbelievable’ sentence, but the judge said Price would avoid going to jail because she completed a stint at celebrity rehab clinic The Priory and had stayed out of trouble.

Speaking on Good Morning Britain after her sentencing, the mother-of-five said she was ‘dealing with it’.

She said: ‘The events were really traumatic. It’s been traumatic after, so I’m not ready to talk about it yet.

‘But what I will say is that I went to the Priory and I’ve made the decision finally to see a therapist every week, forever, to deal with the traumatic events that led me to getting into that car.

‘I’m very good at hiding things but when I’m ready to talk about it then I will come on to talk. There’s reasons why I got in that car and my mental state but when I’m ready I will.

‘I feel ashamed about it all. There are reasons that I am still dealing with now. It’s a new year but I’m still dealing with it, people shouldn’t judge people, there’s always reasons for things.’