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Individuals of an Italian family of burglars who took over £1.2 million valued of items, among them from ex- Newcastle United forward Alexander Isak, have been ordered to pay back only £1 each.

Siblings Valentino Nikolov and Giacomo, their female sibling Jela Jovanovic and her child Charlie Jovanovic travelled to the north-east of the UK to burgle multiple homes in April 2024.

The foursome 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 pay back £1 each while Charlie Jovanovic must pay £1,135.

Particulars of the Break-ins

The judge was told the group came by ferry in the United Kingdom on 27 March 2024 and employed a RV as their "base of operations", which they parked at a service area and Durham service service stations while utilizing another car to search for targets and carry out burglaries.

On March 31 they stole more than £1m of goods including high-end fashion, purses, jewellery and a honor from a house on Clayton Road in Jesmond, while the residents were on holiday.

The next evening, the crew entered a home on a private road in Whitburn, and took luxury bags, valuables and shoes valued at over one hundred thousand pounds.

Following surveillance of the football club's training ground for 48 hours, they then acted at the home of Sweden player Mr Isak in Darras Hall on 4 April, taking £10,000 in cash, sixty-eight thousand pounds valued of jewelry and the striker's one hundred twenty thousand pound luxury car.

The group, who were portrayed by prosecutors as professional itinerant thieves, wore gloves and masks, switched their mobile devices off as they neared their objectives and attached a license plate, which had been taken from a garage in a town, on to their car with rubber straps.

They were arrested in the Birmingham on 13 April.

Court Hearings and Sentencing

Valentino Nikolov had pleaded not guilty to the burglary plot but was convicted by the court, while his three relations had all submitted guilty pleas to the identical accusation.

At the criminal gains session, prosecutor Daniel Cordey said each of the burglars had benefited from their offenses to the amount of over £1.2 million, which was determined by what the victims said they had had stolen.

But Charlie was the only one found to have any funds that could be "realised", specifically over a thousand pounds which had already been seized by police, the judge heard, with two weeks to be served in jail if he failed to pay.

The remaining members had no assets or property so were directed to make a token amount of £1 each, with one week in incarceration the consequence if the money was not submitted.

Judge Robert Spragg said if they were discovered with assets in the coming years, "for example driving around in Italy in a sports car or possessing a property", the prosecution could initiate new proceedings to "recover the sum due".