The woman who raised legendary Australian performer Nick Cave’s love child has quietly mourned their son’s loss with friends at a local beer hall.
Jethro Lazenby died aged 30, the star musician said on Tuesday – seven years after the star’s 15-year-old son Arthur fell to his death from a cliff in the United Kingdom.
On Tuesday, Lazenby’s devastated mum Lee-Anne ‘Beau’ Lazenby joined two friends down the road from her Collingwood home, just outside of Melbourne’s CBD, to remember her troubled son over a glass of red.
Lazenby was in a terrible downward spiral before his sudden death in Melbourne and had only walked free from jail on bail last week over a vicious assault against his mother.
Ms Lazenby appeared relaxed having a quiet drink with her friends but was visibly shaken upon taking a phone call.
She declined to comment when approached by Daily Mail Australia on Tuesday afternoon.
Court documents released to Daily Mail Australia provided insight into the utter despair Cave’s tormented son had experienced before Victoria Police detectives took him into custody.
On November 1 last year, police arrested Lazenby after he was caught shoplifting from a CBD 7-Eleven.
A desperate Lazenby had stolen a packet of chili beef jerky and a bag a Smith’s chips, worth a paltry $12.50.
Later that day he was busted stealing food again, this time helping himself to two meat pies and a Smoothie.
The total of his illicit bounty cost just $11.
Lazenby would be jailed in March amid allegations he bashed his Melbourne-based former model mother after she refused to buy him a pack of smokes.
The brutal attack inside her Collingwood home had left left her bloodied and bruised.
He had already been free on bail when he assaulted his long suffering mum, who had hooked up with Cave in about 1990.
The court heard Lazenby was on bail when his mum found him on her front porch just after midnight on March 7.
Ms Lazenby made up a bed for him after he convinced her to let him stay the night.
Sources have told Daily Mail Australia Lazenby had struggled with drug addiction for most of his adult life.