Marco Pierre White Jr ‘is hit with ANOTHER jail sentence’ after battering man – simply weeks after being locked up for £60,000 shoplifting spree
Marco Pierre White Jr has been handed another prison sentence for assaulting a man just weeks after being jailed for £60,000 worth of damage during a shoplifting spree.
White Jr, 30, confessed to assaulting Constantino Teixeira De Leca in Bath, Somerset, last April.
The former Celebrity Big Brother contestant was sentenced in his absence to four weeks behind bars to run consecutively with another jail term given a month before.
He was also ordered to pay the victim £200 in compensation, Bristol Magistrates’ Court heard, The Sun reported.
It comes just weeks after Marco Pierre White’s troubled son was jailed for causing almost £60,000 worth of damage to a gallery and stealing Jellycats in a string of robberies.
White Jr broke into the La Piccola deli in Chelsea, London, and grabbed a laptop, tablet, iPod and the till tray on June 12 this year.
Just three days later, the celebrity chef’s son smashed his way into Venusrox, a store on All Saints Road, Notting Hill, and stole two natural rock crystal formations.
His spree continued when he caused £44,000 worth of damage by destroying crystals and committing theft at Dale Rogers’ Ammonite on Pimlico Road on June 19.
Marco Pierre White Jr (pictured in 2016) has been handed another prison sentence for assaulting a man just weeks after being jailed for £60,000 worth of damage during a shoplifting spree
He is the son of Marco Pierre White, the youngest ever cook to attain three Michelin stars
The shop is described as ‘London’s home of rare fossils, decorative minerals and exquisite crystals’.
White Jr took two green fluorite crystal lamp towers and caused significant damage to four mounted crystals and the front door.
He busted through the front door and was seen entering on three separate occasions before cycling away.
The theft from Dale Rogers Ammonite was described as ‘devastating, both personally and to the business’.
White Jr made a habit of targeting small stores with high-value items in the middle of the night, travelling to and from each store on a Lime bike.
The court heard he has a ‘long-standing drug addiction’ and was on two suspended sentences for the majority of his thieving spree.
White Jr has 30 previous convictions for 69 offences. The spree began on April 1, when an alarm was triggered at Clayton’s Kitchens, Bath.
The next day broken glass and blood was found, but no items were stolen.
The following day, police received a call at 4.30am relating to Mercy in Action, a charity shop in Bath.
Marco Pierre White Jr (pictured) had been jailed for a £60,000 burglary and shoplifting spree to fund his drug habit only weeks ago
The theft from Dale Rogers Ammonite (pictured) was described as ‘devastating, both personally and to the business’
White Jr was later seen wearing clothing an eyewitness had seen him in, with more than £500 stolen from the charity stop.
He initially denied this offence and said he borrowed the clothing, but later pleaded guilty.
On June 18, the ex-Celebrity Big Brother contestant walked into Waterstones, Chiswick, west London and stole £493 of Jellycat toys, fleeing on a Lime bike.
He carried out another theft that day at an Aesop Store on Westbourne Grove at around 1.30pm. He stole £1,331 of items before fleeing again on a Lime bike.
His crime spree came to an end on June 21, when he broke into a Barnes store, smashing his way in with a brick. He stole £1,500 of Jellycats.
The Uber driver he hailed later alerted police. After deploying a dog unit, they found White with the stolen toys.
White Jr had left DNA at almost every scene he had been at in the form of blood from breaking in through glass.
He admitted four counts of burglary, criminal damage and a series of theft charges. He was jailed for a total of three years and 10 months.
Judge Connell described White Jr’s spree as a ‘campaign of dishonesty’ and spoke of his ‘willful’ and ‘persistent’ non-compliance when on suspended sentences.
‘All of the offences are aggravated by the defendant’s appalling record for dishonesty and the fact that he was subject to one or for the most part two suspended sentences.
‘In my view, he is quite aptly described as a prolific offender.’
