🔗 Share this article Isak Robbers Ordered to Repay Just £1 Each from £1.2m Thefts Jela Jovanovic confessed to participating in the burglaries Members of an Italy-based clan of burglars who took over £1.2 million worth of goods, among them from former Newcastle United striker Alexander Isak, have been mandated to return just £1 per person. Siblings Valentino and Giacomo Nikolov, their female sibling Jela Jovanovic and her son Charlie Jovanovic travelled to the north-east of the UK to raid three houses in April 2024. The foursome were jailed for from six and 10 years in 2025. At a criminal assets hearing at Newcastle Crown Court, Jela Jovanovic and the brothers Nikolov were instructed to repay £1 each while Charlie must pay £1,135. Particulars of the Burglaries The judge was told the group came by boat in the United Kingdom on March 27, 2024 and employed a RV as their "headquarters", which they stationed at a service area and Durham service service stations while using a separate vehicle to scout out properties and carry out thefts. On March 31 they took over £1m of goods including designer clothing, purses, jewellery and a honor from a residence on Clayton Road in Jesmond, Newcastle, while the owners were away. Valentino Nikolov was the sole member of the foursome to contest burglary but was convicted by the jury The following night, the crew entered a house on a gated cul-de-sac in Whitburn, South Tyneside, and stole luxury bags, jewellery and shoes valued at over £100,000. After scouting out the football club's training ground for two days, they then struck at the residence of Sweden striker Alexander Isak in Darras Hall on 4 April, taking ten thousand pounds in cash, £68,000 worth of jewellery and the striker's one hundred twenty thousand pound luxury car. The gang, who were portrayed by prosecutors as experienced itinerant thieves, used gloves and masks, turned their mobile devices off as they neared their targets and strapped a license plate, which had been taken from a garage in Chester-le-Street, on to their vehicle with elastic bands. They were arrested in the Birmingham area on April 13. Thieves took money and jewellery valued at eighty thousand pounds and an car from then-Newcastle United striker Isak's home Court Proceedings and Sentencing Valentino Nikolov had denied the burglary plot but was found guilty by the court, while his three relations had all submitted guilty pleas to the same charge. At the proceeds of crime session, lawyer the prosecution said each of the defendants had profited from their offenses to the amount of £1,266,285.93, which was determined by what the victims said they had lost. But Charlie Jovanovic was the sole individual found to have any funds that could be "realised", specifically £1,135.50 which had previously been confiscated by authorities, the judge was informed, with two weeks to be served in prison if he failed to pay. The other three had no money or assets so were ordered to make a token amount of £1 per person, with one week in incarceration the consequence if the sum was not submitted. Judge Robert Spragg said if they were found with property in the coming years, "for example driving around in Italy in a sports car or possessing a home", prosecutors could seek further action to "recover the amount due".