Marco Pierre White Jr has been jailed for a second time in weeks after a £60,000 crime spree. The 30-year-old, son of celebrity chef Marco Pierre White, was sentenced to four weeks in prison for assaulting Manuel Constantino Teixeira De Leca in Bath, Somerset, in April. The sentence, handed down in his absence at Bristol Magistrates’ Court on November 11, will run consecutively with a previous jail term imposed on October 30.
White was already serving time for a series of offences including vandalising a gallery, stealing Jellycat toys, and breaking into an Italian deli in Kensington where he stole a laptop, tablet, iPod and till tray. He also took two natural rock crystal formations from a Notting Hill store and caused £44,000 worth of damage to mounted crystals. In July, he stole £1,500 worth of Jellycat soft toys from a store in Barnes, South West London.
The court heard that White has a long-standing drug addiction and was already on two suspended sentences during most of his offending. He has now been convicted 32 times for 70 offences. His criminal record includes a 2019 conviction for drink and racial harassment, for which he was fined £200 after using racial slurs during an arrest at Paddington Station.
White, who appeared on Celebrity Big Brother in 2016, has a daughter, Arabella Rosa, born in November 2019. He had previously spoken about turning his life around after moving to his father’s farm in Wiltshire with his partner Francesca Suter.
