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Individuals of an Italy-based clan of burglars who took more than £1.2m worth of items, including from ex- NUFC forward Isak, have been mandated to pay back just £1 each.

Siblings Valentino and Giacomo, their female sibling Jela Jovanovic and her child Charlie Jovanovic journeyed to the northeastern of England to raid multiple homes in April 2024.

The foursome were imprisoned for from a decade or less in 2025.

At a criminal assets proceeding at Newcastle Crown Court, Jela and the Nikolov brothers were ordered to pay back £1 each while Charlie Jovanovic must hand over over a thousand pounds.

Details of the Burglaries

The judge was told the group arrived by boat in the UK on 27 March 2024 and employed a RV as their "base of operations", which they stationed at Scotch Corner and Durham rest stops while utilizing a separate vehicle to search for properties and carry out thefts.

On 31 March they stole more than one million pounds of items such as high-end fashion, purses, jewelry and a CBE medal from a residence on a street in Jesmond, while the owners were on holiday.

The next evening, the crew broke into a home on a gated cul-de-sac in Whitburn, South Tyneside, and took designer handbags, jewellery and footwear valued at over one hundred thousand pounds.

After scouting out the football club's training ground for 48 hours, they then acted at the residence of Swedish striker Alexander Isak in Darras Hall on April 4, taking ten thousand pounds in money, £68,000 valued of jewellery and the player's one hundred twenty thousand pound Audi RS6.

The gang, who were portrayed by the prosecution as professional itinerant burglars, wore hand coverings and masks, turned their mobile devices off as they neared their targets and attached a number plate, which had been stolen from a auto shop in a town, on to their car with rubber straps.

They were apprehended in the Birmingham area on 13 April.

Court Proceedings and Sentencing

Valentino Nikolov had denied conspiracy to burglary but was convicted by jurors, while his family members had all entered admissions to the same charge.

At the proceeds of crime session, prosecutor Daniel Cordey said every one of the defendants had profited from their offenses to the value of over £1.2 million, which was based on what the victims said they had had stolen.

But Charlie Jovanovic was the sole individual deemed to have any money that could be "recovered", namely over a thousand pounds which had already been seized by police, the court was informed, with two weeks to be spent in prison if he defaulted.

The other three had no money or assets so were ordered to pay a token amount of £1 per person, with one week in incarceration the consequence if the sum was not paid.

Judge Robert Spragg said if they were found with assets in the future, "for example driving around in Italy in a sports car or possessing a home", the prosecution could initiate further action to "recover the sum outstanding".