Love Island winner Jack Fincham has been accused of making a ‘deliberate attempt to avoid justice’ after missing his court hearing because he is in rehab.
Fincham, 34, was summoned to court after failing to carry out three shifts of unpaid work he was ordered by a judge to complete as part of conditions of a suspended sentence.
However, he failed to appear at Medway Magistrates’ Court in Kent as he is currently completing a two month stay at Rainford Hall rehabilitation centre in Merseyside.
He was charged with failing to comply with the community requirements of a 18 month suspended sentence order he received in 2024 for driving under the influence of cocaine, speeding and using false number plates.
The suspended sentence was extended by three months in March 2025 for dangerous dog offences.
Fincham had entered rehab with an email from the Rainford Hall ‘detox clinic’ asking for the hearing to be moved to a date after his discharge on March 23, the court heard.
He sent the court a letter claiming he had tried to contact them and his probation officer a number of times but had not been able to get in touch.
The court was asked to establish the date Fincham entered the rehab in order to understand if it was before or after he had been served his summons on November 28 last year.
Love Island star Jack Fincham and his black Cane Corso dog which bit two people
Fincham, 34, was summoned to court after failing to carry out three shifts of unpaid work he was ordered by a judge to complete as part of conditions of a suspended sentence (Pictured: Fincham after an appeal hearing in March 2025)
Prosecuting Barrister Martin Smith cast doubt on the legitimacy of Fincham’s stay in rehab, saying ‘some could say it is a deliberate attempt to avoid justice’, but agreed to adjourn to April 7.
Fincham was stopped on August 26, 2023, after police saw him driving along the hard shoulder in heavy traffic on the A2 in Dartford, Kent.
He provided a negative breath test but a drugs wipe returned a positive for cocaine.
Kent Online reported Fincham ‘could not afford insurance’ and instead asked his friend to clone his number plate so it would match his own white BMW – hiding his lack of third party coverage.
Fincham was ‘heavily on drugs’ at the time and was taking it daily.
He admitted to using a motor vehicle on a road without third party insurance, driving a motor vehicle with a proportion of a specified controlled drug above the specified limit, driving a mechanically propelled vehicle on a road without due care and attention, and fraudulently using a registration.
Fincham was handed a 12 week suspended sentence, which was reduced from 16 weeks due to his early admission.
In January 2025, he was sentenced to six weeks in jail for dangerous dog offences, but later won an appeal which saw his suspended sentence extended by three months instead of jail time.
Fincham, who had pleaded guilty to the charge, faced two separate incidents involving his black Cane Corso.
The first attack left runner Robert Sudell with an injury, while a second incident in June 2024 saw a woman’s calf grabbed – though no injury was reported.
Daily Mail has reached out to Fincham’s representatives for comment.