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 returns to Australia as the Crocodile Dundee star’s drug-addicted grandson prepares to be sentenced.

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

Jake Paul Hogan, 34, who goes by the name of his famous grandfather, affectionately known as ‘Hoges’, has been jailed after being denied bail in March.

The former tradie will be sentenced next week for breaking into apartment buildings “to fuel his high-level drug use” and for breaching an apprehended violence order against a woman he allegedly terrorized.

Downing Center Local Court heard a psychiatric report is being prepared on the trained carpenter whose life spiraled out of control earlier this year.

Jake previously had a nice house, a car, a steady job and a girlfriend 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, cycling around high on the ice for hours every day, making tearful phone calls to the few people who hadn’t abandoned him.

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

A former acquaintance revealed that Jake was traumatized by a family tragedy that occurred long before he went to prison for threatening 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 17 years old in 2006.

After her death, Paul Hogan left his own grace from California — where he lived with his second wife Linda Kozlowski and their infant son, Chance — to attend his daughter-in-law’s funeral.

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

Jake remained in Sydney and seemed to live a normal and largely blameless life until he began a relationship with a young mother named Rachel Young.

Jake had problems with substance abuse, but when his relationship ended and his hopes of having a family of his own disappeared, he “became seriously addicted to drugs that completely took over his life,” the court heard.

Currently, Jake is in prison – presumably Silverwater Jail – and is being protected due to his grandfather’s fame.

The court heard that before Todd Hogan flew in to visit his son and attend the hearing in person, Jake’s assessment report contained “a lot of positive information” but this had yet to be verified.

Jake was caught earlier this year when he broke into several luxury blocks after ‘shamelessly hanging out’ outside, according to police.

According to a police statement of facts, Jake could be clearly seen breaking into an apartment building in the Sydney suburb of Pyrmont, wearing a black fitted T-shirt with “Los Angeles” in gold lettering, shorts and white New Balance sneakers.

On another occasion he wore a black ‘L’HISTOIRE’ singlet and black shorts to burglarize a block in nearby Waterloo.

Police later found him with Trojan brand wire cutters, a black flashlight, Allen wrenches and an adjustable wrench.

Jake also breached a domestic violence arrest warrant five days after it was removed by a woman by texting her the word ‘DOG’ while she was in Prince of Wales Hospital.

The woman then received a further 42 calls from various payphones over four hours as she lay in her hospital bed while he was ‘crying on the phone… or getting very angry and shouting’.

The police facts detail Jake’s high number of arrests and offences, as well as previous charges including keeping a knife in a public place, malicious damage, drug possession, shoplifting and possession of stolen goods.

Instead of working in his profession, courts heard how Jake carried burglary tools and prowled outside posh apartment blocks looking for opportunities to steal.

Jake’s acquaintance said he “wasn’t a bad person, but he was completely lost.” He never came to terms with his mother’s death. So he has real abandonment issues.

“He’s actually a good person with a very friendly personality and a supportive family,” the person said.

‘He was still so angry about his mother’s death. He never got over it because he never dealt with it properly.”

When his relationship with his girlfriend ended, it “destroyed his dreams of starting a family and brought back all kinds of past traumas.”

‘He was just devastated. He lost all his friends and [became] isolated from his family. He stole clothes from stores and bicycles, and hung around because he was homeless.

“He broke into pool rooms and slept in one of those buildings in Pyrmont.”

Jake was eventually 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 an employee saw him steal two Dare Iced Coffees at Coles World Square.