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Individuals of an Italian family of burglars who stole more than £1.2m valued of items, including from former Newcastle United striker Alexander Isak, have been mandated to return just £1 each.

Siblings Valentino and Giacomo Nikolov, their female sibling Jela Jovanovic and her child Charlie travelled to the north-east of the UK to raid three houses in spring 2024.

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

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

Particulars of the Break-ins

The court was told the gang arrived by boat in the United Kingdom on March 27, 2024 and employed a RV as their "headquarters", which they stationed at Scotch Corner and Durham service stations while utilizing another car to scout out targets and execute thefts.

On 31 March they took over one million pounds of goods including high-end fashion, purses, jewellery and a CBE medal from a residence on a street in Jesmond, Newcastle, while the owners were on holiday.

The next evening, the crew broke into a house on a gated cul-de-sac in Whitburn, South Tyneside, and took luxury bags, valuables and footwear worth over one hundred thousand pounds.

Following surveillance of the football club's facility for 48 hours, they then struck at the residence of Sweden striker Mr Isak in Darras Hall on April 4, taking ten thousand pounds in money, sixty-eight thousand pounds worth of jewellery and the player's £120,000 luxury car.

The group, who were described by prosecutors as experienced touring burglars, wore hand coverings and face coverings, switched their phones off as they approached their objectives and strapped a number plate, which had been stolen from a garage in Chester-le-Street, on to their car with rubber straps.

They were apprehended in the Birmingham on April 13.

Legal Hearings and Rulings

Valentino had pleaded not guilty to conspiracy to burglary but was convicted by the court, while his family members had all submitted admissions to the identical accusation.

At the criminal gains session, prosecutor the prosecution said every one of the defendants had profited from their offenses to the value of £1,266,285.93, which was determined by what the victims said they had lost.

But Charlie was the only one found to have any funds that could be "realised", namely £1,135.50 which had already been seized by authorities, the judge was informed, with two weeks to be spent in jail if he defaulted.

The other three had no assets or assets so were ordered to make a token amount of £1 each, with seven days in prison the result if the money was not paid.

Judge Spragg said if they were found with property in the coming years, "for example driving around Italy in a sports car or owning a home", prosecutors could seek new proceedings to "satisfy the amount due".