🔗 Share this article Isak Robbers Ordered to Repay Just £1 Each from £1.2m Thefts Giacomo Nikolov admitted their involvement in the burglaries Members of an Italy-based family of thieves who took over £1.2m worth of goods, among them from former NUFC forward Alexander Isak, have been mandated to return only £1 per person. Siblings Valentino and Giacomo Nikolov, their female sibling Jela and her child Charlie Jovanovic travelled to the northeastern of the UK to burgle three houses in April 2024. The group of four were jailed for from six and 10 years in 2025. At a criminal assets proceeding at the court, Jela and the brothers Nikolov were ordered to repay £1 each while Charlie must pay £1,135. Particulars of the Break-ins The judge previously heard the group came by boat in the UK on March 27, 2024 and employed a campervan as their "base of operations", which they stationed at Scotch Corner and Durham service rest stops while utilizing another car to search for properties and execute burglaries. On March 31 they stole more than £1m of items including high-end fashion, handbags, jewelry and a honor from a house on Clayton Road in Jesmond, Newcastle, while the residents were on holiday. Valentino Nikolov was the only one of the foursome to deny the charge but was found guilty by jurors The following night, the gang broke into a home on a gated cul-de-sac in Whitburn, and took luxury bags, valuables and shoes worth over one hundred thousand pounds. After scouting out Newcastle United's facility for two days, they then acted at the home of Sweden player Alexander Isak in Darras Hall on 4 April, taking £10,000 in money, sixty-eight thousand pounds valued of jewelry and the player's £120,000 luxury car. The group, who were portrayed by prosecutors as experienced itinerant thieves, wore hand coverings and masks, turned their phones on silent as they approached their targets and strapped a number plate, which had been taken from a auto shop in a town, on to their vehicle with elastic bands. They were apprehended in the Birmingham on 13 April. Thieves stole money and jewellery valued at eighty thousand pounds and an Audi from then-Newcastle United striker Isak's home Court Hearings and Sentencing Valentino had denied the burglary plot but was convicted by the court, while his three relations had all entered admissions to the identical accusation. At the criminal gains session, lawyer the prosecution said each of the burglars had profited from their crimes to the amount of over £1.2 million, which was based on what the victims said they had lost. But Charlie was the sole individual deemed to have any money that could be "recovered", specifically over a thousand pounds which had previously been confiscated by authorities, the judge heard, with 14 days to be spent in prison if he failed to pay. The remaining members had no assets or property so were ordered to make a token amount of £1 per person, with seven days in prison the result if the sum was not paid. Judge Robert Spragg said if they were discovered with property in the future, "for example operating in Italy in a fast car or possessing a property", the prosecution could seek new proceedings to "satisfy the sum outstanding".