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Individuals of an Italian family of thieves who took over £1.2m worth of items, among them from former NUFC striker Isak, have been mandated to pay back just £1 each.

Siblings Valentino and Giacomo, their sister Jela Jovanovic and her child Charlie Jovanovic travelled to the northeastern of England to burgle three houses in spring 2024.

The foursome were imprisoned for from a decade or less in May 2025.

At a criminal assets hearing at Newcastle Crown Court, Jela Jovanovic and the Nikolov brothers were instructed to repay £1 each while Charlie must hand over over a thousand pounds.

Particulars of the Break-ins

The judge was told the group arrived by boat in the United Kingdom on March 27, 2024 and employed a RV as their "base of operations", which they parked at Scotch Corner and Durham service stations while utilizing a separate vehicle to scout out properties and execute thefts.

On 31 March they stole over one million pounds of items such as designer clothing, handbags, jewellery and a honor from a residence on Clayton Road in Jesmond, while the owners were on holiday.

The following night, the crew entered a home on a private road in Whitburn, and stole designer handbags, valuables and footwear valued at over £100,000.

After scouting out the football club's training ground for 48 hours, they then acted at the residence of Swedish player Mr Isak in Darras Hall, Ponteland on April 4, taking ten thousand pounds in money, sixty-eight thousand pounds valued of jewelry and the striker's one hundred twenty thousand pound Audi RS6.

The group, who were described by prosecutors as experienced itinerant burglars, wore hand coverings and masks, switched their phones on silent as they neared their targets and attached a number plate, which had been stolen from a auto shop in a town, on to their car with rubber straps.

They were apprehended in the Birmingham area on 13 April.

Legal Proceedings and Sentencing

Valentino Nikolov had denied the burglary plot but was convicted by jurors, while his family members had all entered admissions to the same charge.

At the criminal gains hearing, prosecutor the prosecution said every one of the defendants had profited from their crimes to the amount of £1,266,285.93, which was determined by what the victims said they had had stolen.

But Charlie was the sole individual found to have any money that could be "recovered", namely over a thousand pounds which had already been seized by authorities, the court heard, with two weeks to be served in prison if he defaulted.

The remaining members had no assets or assets so were directed to pay a token amount of £1 per person, with seven days in incarceration the consequence if the sum was not paid.

Judge Spragg said if they were discovered with assets in the future, "such as driving around in Italy in a fast car or owning a home", prosecutors could initiate new proceedings to "satisfy the amount outstanding".