Former Celebrity Big Brother star Marco Pierre White Jr has pleaded guilty to burgling a tattoo shop in Somerset. And in a twist of fate, the shop is called Behind Bars.
The 29-year-old, who is the son of the Michelin chef Marco Pierre White, admitted to carrying out he burglary last month at the tattoo shop in Weston-Super-Mare. He will be sentenced on November 29 after pleading guilty to one count of burglary.
The offence comes only two months after the former Celebrity Big Brother star had only been released from prison. In August, he was sentenced to eight weeks in jail for stealing socks from a supermarket near his dad’s four-star hotel The Rudloe near Bath. Marco Jr also burgled The Crown Inn in the picturesque city, and stole £2,000 worth of cigarettes.
In January 2019, he was convicted and fined after unleashing a shocking tirade at police officers as they arrested him for being drunk and disorderly in a train station.
Seven months later, he was taken to a police station “kicking and screaming” after smashing windows during a furious row with his chef dad Marco Sr, and in 2022, he was jailed for 18 months after being convicted of 14 offences including racially aggravated abuse, heroin possesion and carrying a knife.
In May this year, he was arrested after burgling an upscale deli in Bath, and was captured on CCTV smashing the window with a champagne bottle. He stole £250 from the cafe, which was featured on the Netflix show Bridgerton, and was identified by police after his trousers fell down during his escape, revealing his distinctive tattoos on his legs and rear end.
The owner of the cafe, Jon Ison, claimed this was the second time Marco Jr had stolen from him, and told The Sun that he also stole money from the charity box that was on the counter next to the till. “He probably thought he was in the clear but when he crawled back through the window he got his tracksuit caught on the frame and accidentally mooned his bare backside right at our CCTV cameras,” he said.
“The hilarious thing about this burglary is that we only knew it was him because his trousers got caught around his ankles and we could see his tattoos on his bum cheeks,” Jon added.
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