Overview
- The Proceeds of Crime Act hearing set the gang’s criminal benefit at £1,266,285.93 after a series of high-value burglaries in spring 2024.
- With only £1,135.50 in available assets, three defendants were ordered to pay £1 each, while Charlie Jovanovic must repay £1,135.50.
- The four Italian nationals were already jailed earlier this year for conspiracy to burgle after targeting multiple North East homes, including Alexander Isak’s.
- Prosecutors detailed surveillance of Newcastle United’s training ground and the use of masks, gloves, swapped number plates and disabled phones to avoid detection.
- The raids included a Jesmond theft exceeding £1m, a Whitburn haul over £100,000, and valuables taken from Isak’s Darras Hall home, with his Audi later found abandoned and damaged.