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Individuals of an Italy-based clan of thieves who took over £1.2m worth of items, among them from ex- NUFC forward Isak, have been ordered to return just £1 each.

Brothers Valentino and Giacomo, their sister Jela and her child Charlie journeyed to the north-east of the UK to burgle multiple homes in April 2024.

The foursome were jailed for between a decade or less in 2025.

At a criminal assets proceeding at the court, Jela and the Nikolov brothers were instructed to repay £1 each while Charlie must pay over a thousand pounds.

Details of the Burglaries

The judge previously heard the group arrived by ferry in the United Kingdom on 27 March 2024 and employed a campervan as their "headquarters", which they parked at Scotch Corner and Durham service stations while utilizing a separate vehicle to scout out properties and carry out thefts.

On 31 March they took more than one million pounds of goods such as high-end fashion, handbags, jewelry and a CBE medal from a house on a street in Jesmond, Newcastle, while the owners were away.

The next evening, the gang broke into a home on a gated cul-de-sac in Whitburn, and took designer handbags, jewellery and footwear valued at over £100,000.

After scouting out the football club's training ground for two days, they then struck at the residence of Swedish striker Alexander Isak in Darras Hall, Ponteland on April 4, stealing £10,000 in money, sixty-eight thousand pounds worth of jewellery and the striker's one hundred twenty thousand pound luxury car.

The gang, who were portrayed by prosecutors as experienced touring burglars, wore gloves and face coverings, switched their phones on silent as they neared their objectives and strapped a license plate, which had been taken from a auto shop in a town, on to their car with elastic bands.

They were apprehended in the Birmingham on 13 April.

Legal Hearings and Sentencing

Valentino Nikolov had pleaded not guilty to the burglary plot but was found guilty by jurors, while his family members had all entered admissions to the identical accusation.

At the criminal gains session, prosecutor the prosecution said each of the burglars had profited from their crimes to the value of over £1.2 million, which was determined by what the affected parties said they had had stolen.

But Charlie Jovanovic was the sole individual found to have any money that could be "recovered", namely over a thousand pounds which had previously been confiscated by police, the judge was informed, with 14 days to be served in jail if he defaulted.

The remaining members had no money or assets so were ordered to make a nominal fee of £1 each, with seven days in incarceration the result if the sum was not submitted.

Judge Spragg said if they were discovered with property in the future, "such as operating in Italy in a sports car or owning a home", prosecutors could initiate further action to "recover the sum outstanding".