A top photographer snapped during a row with his ex-wife - smashing two glass panels in her front door with his bike helmet - as they clashed over their teenage daughter's care.
Iain Spears McKell, 53, of Highlever Road, North Kensington, West London was left in the lurch when his ex refused to take care of Jasmin, 15, while he travelled to Poland for an important shoot.
He pleaded guilty at City of London Magistrates' Court to causing £200 worth of criminal damage at the house in nearby Oliphant Street (pictured), on August 17, last year.
Prosecutor Sandra Sanchez told the court: "The defendant attended his ex wife's address after an argument on the phone and they continued arguing at the house.
"The defendant was angry and smashed two glass panels in the front door with his bike helmet."
The court heard the first-time offender, who Jasmin lives with, had arranged five days earlier for the girl to stay with her mother while he spent up to a week in Poland.
At 9pm the night before he was due to fly out at 5pm McKell received a call from his "screaming" ex insisting their daughter could not stay because she had an important dinner date.
The defendant's lawyer told the court his client felt his daughter had been "abandoned" and "was under great pressure and stress."
McKell was conditionally discharged for twelve months and ordered to pay £200 compensation and pay £150 costs.
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