Paul Hogan's son to make mercy dash back to Australia as Crocodile Dundee ... trends now
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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 Hogan, the grandson of Crocodile Dundee star Paul Hogan, is in jail awaiting sentencing for break-ins committed after he spiralled out of control on drugs
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.
