Troubled celebrity offspring Marco Pierre White Jr has been handed another prison sentence, this time for assault, just weeks after being jailed for a devastating £60,000 burglary and shoplifting spree.
A Violent Assault Adds to Growing List of Crimes
The 30-year-old son of the famed chef confessed to assaulting Constantino Teixeira De Leca in the city of Bath, Somerset, in April of last year. Bristol Magistrates' Court sentenced White in his absence to four weeks behind bars, ordering this term to run consecutively with the substantial jail sentence he received a month prior.
The court also mandated that he pay his victim £200 in compensation. This latest conviction paints a picture of escalating criminal behaviour for the former Celebrity Big Brother contestant.
The £60,000 Shoplifting and Burglary Spree
This assault charge emerged just weeks after White was imprisoned for a string of high-value thefts and acts of criminal damage across London. His crime wave, which targeted small businesses with valuable items, culminated in a total sentence of three years and 10 months.
His spree began in earnest in June, when he broke into the La Piccola deli in Chelsea, London, on June 12, making off with a laptop, tablet, iPod, and the till tray. Just three days later, he smashed his way into Venusrox in Notting Hill, stealing two natural rock crystal formations.
The most destructive incident occurred on June 19 at Dale Rogers' Ammonite on Pimlico Road, a store described as 'London's home of rare fossils, decorative minerals and exquisite crystals'. White caused an estimated £44,000 worth of damage, destroying crystals and stealing two green fluorite crystal lamp towers after busting through the front door. The theft was described as 'devastating, both personally and to the business'.
A Pattern of Offending Fueled by Addiction
Court proceedings revealed a deeply entrenched pattern of criminality. White, who travelled to and from his crimes on a Lime bike, has a 'long-standing drug addiction' which was cited as a driving factor. Alarmingly, he was on two suspended sentences for the majority of his thieving spree.
White's criminal record is extensive, with 30 previous convictions for 69 offences. His June spree also included stealing £493 of Jellycat toys from a Waterstones in Chiswick and £1,331 of items from an Aesop store on Westbourne Grove.
His downfall came on June 21 after he broke into a store in Barnes, stealing another £1,500 of Jellycats. An Uber driver he hailed later alerted police, who located him with the stolen goods. White left DNA at almost every scene in the form of blood from breaking in through glass.
Judge Connell, sentencing him for the thefts, described White's actions as a 'campaign of dishonesty' and labelled him a 'prolific offender'. The judge emphasised that all offences were aggravated by his appalling record and the fact they were committed while under suspended sentences.
