Paul Hogan’s son to make mercy dash back to Australia as Crocodile Dundee star’s drug addict grandchild languishes in jail

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Paul Hogan’s son will make a mercy dash back to Australia as the Crocodile Dundee star’s drug addict grandson prepares to be sentenced.

Todd Hogan, who lives in New Zealand, will return for his jailed son Jake Hogan’s court hearing next week, a lawyer told Magistrate Mark Whelan on Wednesday.

Jake Paul Hogan, 34, who carries the name of his famous grandad, affectionately known as ‘Hoges’, has been in jail after bail was refused in March.

The former tradie will be sentenced next week for breaking into apartment blocks ‘to fuel his high-level drug habit’ and for breaching an apprehended violence order against a woman he allegedly terrorised.

Downing Centre Local Court heard that a psychiatric report is being prepared on the trained carpenter whose life had spiralled out of control earlier this year. 

Jake Paul Hogan, above with his dad Todd Hogan. Todd will make a mercy dash from New Zealand next week to attend Jake’s sentencing hearing 

Jake previously had a nice home, a car, a steady job and a girlfriend whom he hoped to marry. 

But he became a homeless drug addict, sleeping in abandoned buildings and stealing clothes and bicycles to sell.

He lost his friends and became estranged from his family, and would cycle around for hours each day high on ice making tearful phone calls to the few people who hadn’t abandoned him.

Jake – whose father is one of Paul and his first wife Noelene Hogan’s five children –  is the brother of Network Seven TV reporter Mylee Hogan.

A former acquaintance revealed that Jake was traumatised by a family tragedy that occurred long before he was jailed for menacing a woman and stealing to fund his drug habit.

Jake’s mother, Marie, had suffered a ‘very sad’ decline in the weeks leading up to her death from multiple sclerosis when Jake was aged 17 in 2006.

After her death, Paul Hogan made his own mercy dash from California – where he was living with second wife Linda Kozlowski and their young son, Chance – to attend his daughter-in-law’s funeral. 

Todd eventually remarried, to registered nurse Jane, and the couple now live in New Zealand. 

Jake remained in Sydney and appeared to lead a normal and largely blameless life until he began a relationship with a young mother called Rachel Young.

Jake had some substance abuse issues, but when his relationship broke down and his hopes of having his own family disappeared he ‘became seriously addicted to drugs that just completely took over his life,’ the court heard.

Currently in prison – believed to be Silverwater Jail – Jake is in protection because of the fame of his grandfather.

Jake is the grandson of Hollywood celebrity Paul Hogan whose break-out role as Mick ‘Crocodile’ Dundee (above) won him a Golden Globe award and earned him millions

Jake as a boy with his mother Marie and dad Todd in about 1990. Tragedy struck the family with Marie being diagnosed with multiple sclerosis and dying from the disease in 2006

The court heard that ahead of Todd Hogan flying in to visit his son and attend the hearing in person, Jake’s sentencing assessment report had ‘a lot of positive information’ but it was yet to be verified.

Jake was caught earlier this year on what police described as ‘high quality CCTV’ breaking into different luxury blocks after ‘blatantly loitering’ outside.

According to a police statement of facts, Jake could plainly be seen breaking into an apartment block in the inner Sydney suburb of Pyrmont, dressed in a black muscle T-shirt with ‘Los Angeles’ in gold lettering, shorts and white New Balance sneakers.

On another occasion he was wearing a black ‘L’HISTOIRE’ singlet and black shorts to break into a block in nearby Waterloo.

Police later found him carrying Trojan brand wire cutters, a black torch, Allen keys and an adjustable wrench.

Jake also breached an Apprehended Domestic Violence Order five days after it was taken out by a woman, texting her the word ‘DOG’ while she was in the Prince of Wales Hospital.

The woman then received a further 42 calls from different payphones over four hours while in her hospital bed with him either ‘crying on the phone… or becoming very angry and yelling’.

The police facts detail Jake’s high numbers of arrests and breaches and prior charges including custody of a knife in a public place, malicious damage, drug possession, shoplifting, and possessing stolen goods.

Jake Hogan has been in jail bail refused since March in prison – believed to to be Silverwater Jail – and in protection because of his famous grandfather

Jake Hogan is ‘a good person with a very kind and good personality and a supportive family’, but ice addiction and homelessness made him a desperate man

Instead of working in his chosen trade, courts have heard how Jake carried around housebreaking instruments and lingered outside swanky apartment blocks looking for opportunities to steal.

Jake’s acquaintance said he ‘wasn’t a bad person, but he has completely lost his way. He has never got over his mum dying. So he has real abandonment issues.  

‘He is actually a good person with a very kind personality and a supportive family,’ the person said.

‘He was still so upset about his mum dying. He never got over it because he never processed it properly.’

Paul Hogan, above with his second wife Linda Kozlowski in 2013, made his own mercy dash back to Australia in 2006 when Jake’s mother Marie died from multiple sclerosis 

When his relationship with girlfriend ended, that ‘destroyed his dreams of having a family and then brought up all sorts of past trauma.

‘He was just shattered. He lost all of his friends and [became] isolated from his family. He was stealing clothes from shops and bikes, loitering because he was homeless.

‘He used to break into swimming pool rooms and sleep in one of those buildings in Pyrmont.’

Jake was finally taken into custody and refused bail after being caught shoplifting at Coles and Myer in Sydney’s CBD.

He was arrested on February 5 after a staff member spotted him stealing two Dare Iced Coffees at Coles World Square.