Marco Pierre White Jr pleads guilty to burgling tattoo shop called Behind Bars

The former Celebrity Big Brother star is no stranger to being behind bars, as he’s previously been convicted and jailed for shoplifting, possessing a knife, and possessing drugs

Marco Pierre White Jr has pleaded guilty to burgling a tattoo shop in Somerset, ironically called Behind Bars.

The 29-year-old, who is the son of the Michelin chef Marco Pierre White, carried out the burglary last month at the tattoo shop in Weston-Super-Mare. The former Celebrity Big Brother star had only been released from prison two months before burglary, and will be sentenced on 29 November after pleading guilty to one count of burglary.

His downfall began in 2016, just days after he was voted out of the CBB house following shocking behaviour with his housemates, which prompted complaints from viewers and a formal warning from Big Brother. In one incident, he asked Laura Carter to “choke him” as she straddled him on the sofa, and was reprimanded when she later complained to producers about his “wandering hands”.

Days after being the first celebrity to be booted off the show, Marco Jr appeared in court after being stopped by police driving under the influence of cocaine. 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. His legal woes didn’t end there, as 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.

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