Jason Dors-Lake, pictured, son of British film icon Diana Dors, has been given a conditional discharge for stealing a £5 bottle of wine from Sainsbury’s
The son of British film icon Diana Dors was handed a conditional discharge for stealing a £5 bottle of wine, just days after he was cleared of assaulting a photographer.
Jason Dors-Lake, 48, slipped the wine up his sleeve at a Sainsbury’s branch near his £1million home in Notting Hill on 25 July.
Dors-Lake, the youngest son of ‘the English Marilyn Monroe’ Diana Dors and her third husband Alan Lake, admitted theft at Westminster Magistrates’ Court.
Last week the troubled actor was cleared of assaulting Polish photographer Agnieszka Labedzka, 30, after telling Hammersmith magistrates’ court she had flown into a rage when he denied her a threesome with her friend Sophie Ingrand.
Dors-Lake was handed a conditional discharge today and told to pay £105 costs for stealing the bottle of wine.
Ruth Johnson, defending, said: ‘At the time Mr Lake was going through a very bad patch, he had stopped drinking for around a year but he lives quite near Grenfell Tower.
‘He and friends had a first-hand view of that and unfortunately that pushed him back into drinking.
‘His partner then left him because she couldn’t cope with the level of abuse.
Dors-Lake, pictured with daughter Ruby, ‘felt like he would die without alcohol’, the court heard, after being ‘driven to drink’ after witnessing the Grenfell Tower tragedy
Dors-Lake, left, is the youngest son of Dors, right, who appeared in dozens of films between the 1940s and 1970s and was known as the ‘British Marilyn Monroe’
‘He was drinking so much, he felt if he didn’t drink, he felt as if he was going to die.’
Prosecutor Sian Morgan said: ‘Mr Dors-Lake attended the Sainsbury’s supermarket, Ladbroke Grove, at approximately 10.56 in the morning of 25 July.
‘He picked up a bottle of wine, he then walked through the adjacent aisle while he concealed the bottle in his left sleeve.
‘The store supervisor came running out of the shop, he initially denied having anything on him, he was searched and he then took the bottle of wine out of his sleeve.
‘He was detained and there was a struggle before the bottle was retrieved.
Dors is pictured here with Dors-Lake when he was aged just three days. She died of cancer aged 52 in 1984 when he was 15
‘Dors-Lake was arrested and taken to Belgravia Police station where he was cooperative.’
Magistrate Penny Hatfield said: ‘We are going to take the slightly unusual course of giving you a conditional discharge and that is really putting it over to you now.’
Dors-Lake, of Notting Hill, strode out of court in his grey double-breasted suit and wished the magistrate a ‘very lovely day’.
He was ordered to pay costs of £105 to be added to the £10 per fortnight he is already paying for shoplifting in October this year.