🔗 Share this article Alexander Isak Robbers Ordered to Repay Just £1 Per Person from £1.2m Thefts Giacomo Nikolov confessed to participating in the burglaries Individuals of an Italian clan of burglars who stole over £1.2m valued of goods, among them from former Newcastle United striker Alexander Isak, have been mandated to return only £1 each. Brothers Valentino and Giacomo, their female sibling Jela and her child Charlie journeyed to the northeastern of England to burgle three houses in spring 2024. The foursome were imprisoned for between six and 10 years in 2025. At a criminal assets proceeding at Newcastle Crown Court, Jela Jovanovic and the brothers Nikolov were instructed to pay back £1 per person while Charlie Jovanovic must pay £1,135. Particulars of the Break-ins The court was told the group arrived by ferry in the United Kingdom on 27 March 2024 and employed a campervan as their "base of operations", which they stationed at Scotch Corner and Durham service service stations while utilizing a separate vehicle to scout out targets and carry out burglaries. On 31 March they stole more than one million pounds of goods including high-end fashion, purses, jewelry and a CBE medal from a house on Clayton Road in Jesmond, while the residents were away. Valentino was the only one of the foursome to contest burglary but was convicted by the jury The next evening, the crew entered a house on a private road in Whitburn, and took luxury bags, valuables and footwear valued at over one hundred thousand pounds. After scouting out the football club's facility for 48 hours, they then struck at the home of Swedish striker Mr Isak in Darras Hall on 4 April, taking £10,000 in money, sixty-eight thousand pounds valued of jewelry and the striker's one hundred twenty thousand pound Audi RS6. The gang, who were described by prosecutors as experienced touring burglars, wore gloves and masks, turned their phones on silent as they neared their targets and strapped a license plate, which had been stolen from a garage in a town, on to their vehicle with rubber straps. They were arrested in the Birmingham area on April 13. Burglars took cash and jewelry valued at eighty thousand pounds and an Audi from then-Newcastle United striker Isak's property Court Proceedings and Rulings Valentino had denied conspiracy to burglary but was convicted by jurors, while his three relations had all submitted guilty pleas to the same charge. At the proceeds of crime session, prosecutor the prosecution said each of the defendants had profited from their crimes to the value of over £1.2 million, which was determined by what the victims said they had lost. But Charlie Jovanovic was the sole individual found to have any funds that could be "recovered", namely over a thousand pounds which had already been seized by authorities, the court heard, with two weeks to be spent in jail if he failed to pay. The remaining members had no assets or property so were directed to pay a nominal fee of £1 per person, with seven days in prison the result if the sum was not paid. The judge Robert Spragg said if they were discovered with assets in the future, "for example operating Italy in a fast car or owning a property", prosecutors could initiate new proceedings to "recover the amount due".