🔗 Share this article Isak Burglars Ordered to Pay Just £1 Each from £1.2 Million Heists Charlie Jovanovic confessed to their involvement in the burglaries Individuals of an Italy-based family of thieves who stole over £1.2m worth of goods, including from ex- Newcastle United striker Alexander Isak, have been ordered to return only £1 each. Siblings Valentino Nikolov and Giacomo, their sister Jela and her son Charlie journeyed to the north-east of the UK to raid multiple homes in April 2024. The foursome were imprisoned for between six and 10 years in May 2025. At a criminal assets hearing at the court, Jela and the brothers Nikolov were instructed to pay back £1 per person while Charlie must pay over a thousand pounds. Particulars of the Burglaries The court was told the group arrived by ferry in the UK on 27 March 2024 and used a campervan as their "base of operations", which they stationed at Scotch Corner and Durham service rest stops while utilizing a separate vehicle to search for properties and execute burglaries. On March 31 they stole more than one million pounds of items including designer clothing, handbags, jewellery and a CBE medal from a house on Clayton Road in Jesmond, Newcastle, while the owners were away. Valentino Nikolov was the sole member of the foursome to contest the charge but was found guilty by jurors The following night, the crew broke into a home on a gated cul-de-sac in Whitburn, and took luxury bags, valuables and footwear worth over £100,000. Following surveillance of the football club's training ground for 48 hours, they then acted at the residence of Sweden striker Alexander Isak in Darras Hall, Ponteland on April 4, stealing £10,000 in money, sixty-eight thousand pounds valued of jewelry and the player's one hundred twenty thousand pound Audi RS6. The gang, who were portrayed by the prosecution as professional itinerant thieves, used hand coverings and masks, switched their mobile devices on silent as they neared their targets and strapped a license plate, which had been taken from a garage in a town, on to their vehicle with elastic bands. They were apprehended in the Birmingham on 13 April. Thieves took cash and jewelry worth eighty thousand pounds and an Audi from then-Newcastle United striker Isak's property Legal Hearings and Rulings Valentino had denied the burglary plot but was found guilty by the court, while his three relations had all submitted guilty pleas to the identical accusation. At the proceeds of crime hearing, prosecutor the prosecution said every one of the defendants had benefited from their offenses to the amount of £1,266,285.93, which was determined by what the victims said they had had stolen. But Charlie was the sole individual found to have any money that could be "recovered", namely £1,135.50 which had previously been confiscated by authorities, the judge heard, with 14 days to be spent in jail if he defaulted. The other three had no assets or property so were ordered to make a token amount of £1 per person, with one week in prison the result if the sum was not paid. Judge Spragg said if they were found with assets in the coming years, "for example driving around Italy in a fast car or possessing a home", prosecutors could seek new proceedings to "recover the amount outstanding".