The son of renowned chef Marco Pierre White has been sentenced to prison after engaging in a series of burglaries and thefts in an attempt to sustain his drug addiction, resulting in damage totaling nearly £60,000.
Marco Pierre White Jr, aged 30, initiated his crime spree on June 12 by breaking into La Piccola deli located in Chelsea, London, where he made off with a laptop, tablet, iPod, and the cash register tray.
Just a few days later, the former participant of Celebrity Big Brother forcefully entered Venusrox, a shop on All Saints Road in Notting Hill, to steal two unique natural rock crystal formations.
His criminal activities continued on June 19 when he caused £44,000 worth of damage at Dale Rogers’ Ammonite on Pimlico Road, a store renowned as ‘London’s home of rare fossils, decorative minerals, and exquisite crystals.’
During this incident, White stole two green fluorite crystal lamp towers and inflicted serious damage on four mounted crystals as well as the store’s front door.
White took two green fluorite crystal lamp towers and caused significant damage to four mounted crystals and the front door.
He smashed his way in 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 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.
Marco Pierre White Jr (pictured) has been jailed for a £60,000 burglary and shoplifting spree to fund his drug habit
He is the son of Marco Pierre White, the youngest ever cook to attain three Michelin stars
The court heard he has a ‘long-standing drug addiction’ and was on two suspended sentences for the majority of his thieving spree.
White 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.
White 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, White walked into Waterstones, Chiswick, west London and stole £493 of Jellycat toys and fled on a Lime bike.
He carried out another theft that day when he walked into Aesop Store on Westbourne Grove at about 1.30pm after arriving on on bike.
White began placing boxes in his bag and when approached by a shop assistant, he told her: ‘Don’t come near me or I’ll hurt you.’
He stole £1,331 of items from there and again fled on a Lime bike.
His criminal spree came to an end on June 21, when he broke into Presents on Barnes High Street, using a brick to enter the store.
He stole £1,500 of Jellycats and hailed an Uber.
Marco Jr, the son of chef Marco Pierre White , broke into an Italian Deli store in the borough of Kensington and Chelsea, called La Piccola, stealing a laptop, a tablet, an iPod and a till tray on June 12
The theft from Dale Rogers Ammonite (pictured) was described as ‘devastating, both personally and to the business’
The driver alerted police though and after deploying a dog unit, they found White with the stolen toys.
White had left DNA at almost every scene he had been at in the form of blood from breaking in through glass.
Bearded White with long-braided hair appeared at Isleworth Crown Court via video-link from HMP Wandsworth, wearing a red t-shirt.
But he did not return to the video-room after Judge Edward Connell retired to consider his sentence.
Judge Connell described White’s spree as a ‘campaign of dishonesty’ and spoke of his ‘wilful’ and ‘persistent’ non-compliance when on suspended sentences.
He said: ‘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.
‘He has a poor record on court orders, committing offences while subject to suspended sentence orders.
‘The defendant is in breach of two suspended sentence orders, the first was imposed on 29 November 2024 for burglaries, for which he received a 10-week suspended sentence for 18 months.’
White earlier 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.
