🔗 Share this article Alexander Isak Robbers Instructed to Pay Only £1 Each from £1.2m Heists Jela Jovanovic confessed to their involvement in the burglaries Members of an Italian clan of thieves who stole more than £1.2 million worth of goods, including from former Newcastle United forward Alexander Isak, have been ordered to return just £1 each. Brothers Valentino and Giacomo Nikolov, their female sibling Jela Jovanovic and her child Charlie travelled to the northeastern of England to raid three houses in spring 2024. The foursome were imprisoned for between a decade or less in 2025. At a proceeds of crime proceeding at Newcastle Crown Court, Jela Jovanovic and the Nikolov brothers were ordered to repay £1 each while Charlie Jovanovic must pay over a thousand pounds. Particulars of the Burglaries The judge was told the gang came by ferry in the United Kingdom on 27 March 2024 and used a campervan as their "base of operations", which they parked at Scotch Corner and Durham rest stops while utilizing a separate vehicle to search for properties and execute thefts. On 31 March they took more than £1m of goods such as high-end fashion, handbags, jewelry and a honor from a house on Clayton Road in Jesmond, while the residents were on holiday. Valentino Nikolov was the sole member of the foursome to deny the charge but was convicted by the jury The following night, the crew broke into a house on a private road in Whitburn, and took designer handbags, valuables and shoes valued at over one hundred thousand pounds. After scouting out Newcastle United's training ground for two days, they then struck at the residence of Sweden player Mr Isak in Darras Hall, Ponteland on 4 April, taking ten thousand pounds in money, sixty-eight thousand pounds worth of jewelry and the player's £120,000 Audi RS6. The gang, who were described by the prosecution as experienced itinerant burglars, wore hand coverings and masks, turned their phones on silent as they neared their targets and strapped a license plate, which had been stolen from a auto shop in Chester-le-Street, on to their vehicle with elastic bands. They were arrested in the Birmingham on April 13. Burglars stole money and jewelry valued at eighty thousand pounds and an Audi from then-Newcastle United striker Alexander Isak's home Court Proceedings and Rulings Valentino Nikolov had pleaded not guilty to the burglary plot but was convicted by jurors, while his family members had all submitted guilty pleas to the identical accusation. At the criminal gains session, lawyer Daniel Cordey said every one of the defendants had benefited from their crimes to the value of £1,266,285.93, which was determined by what the victims said they had had stolen. But Charlie Jovanovic was the sole individual deemed 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 served in prison if he failed to pay. The other three had no assets or property so were ordered to pay a token amount of £1 per person, with one week in incarceration the consequence if the sum was not submitted. The judge Robert Spragg said if they were found with property in the coming years, "for example operating in Italy in a sports car or owning a property", prosecutors could initiate new proceedings to "satisfy the amount outstanding".