An arrest warrant has been issued for Fadi Fawaz, the ex-partner of the late pop star George Michael, after he failed to attend court to face an allegation he smashed a shop window.
Hairdresser Fawaz, 44, did not appear at Westminster Magistrates’ Court on Tuesday as required.
District judge Alexander Jacobs issued a warrant for his arrest, with Fawaz having previously failed to attend the same magistrates’ court last month.
Fawaz, of St George’s Avenue in Islington, north London, is accused of one count of criminal damage.
He is alleged to have broken a window at Le Fix Natural Beauty Bar in Fitzrovia, near Oxford Street, valued at £800, on December 21 2020.
The matter was adjourned following a hearing lasting two minutes.
Fawaz discovered the lifeless body of his former partner, the ex-Wham! frontman, at the entertainer’s home in Goring-on-Thames, Oxfordshire, on Christmas Day 2016 when he arrived to wake him ahead of a planned lunch.
The singer, famous for hits including Wake Me Up Before You Go-Go, Faith, and Careless Whisper, was 53 at the time of his death.
A coroner later said he died of natural causes – heart disease and a build-up of fat in his liver.
