While one remains on the run, the other three - Alessandro Maltese, 45, Alessandro Donati, 44, and Jugoslav Jovanovic, 24 - were extradited from Italy to Britain to face the music. The 37-year-old socialite is said to have been left terrified by the raid, with her daughter asking ever since if the burglars are 'coming back'.įlying Squad detectives analysed more than 2,000 hours of video footage and relentlessly pursued those responsible across the globe, eventually identifying four key suspects. The third and final property to be hit was the jewel in the crown, so to speak - the £70 million, 55-room mansion near Kensington Palace belonging to Tamara Ecclestone, the daughter of the billionaire former Formula One supremo Bernie, and her husband Jay Rutland (pictured together) It is the highest value burglary in English criminal history - and most of the loot, believed to have been smuggled abroad, has never been recovered. In a plot worthy of a hit heist movie, the gang managed to evade the tightest of security and plunder jewellery and cash worth £26 million - £25 million of which came from the Ecclestones' property alone - before seemingly vanishing into thin air. The third and final property to be hit was the jewel in the crown, so to speak - the £70 million, 55-room mansion near Kensington Palace belonging to Tamara Ecclestone, the daughter of the billionaire former Formula One supremo Bernie, and her husband Jay Rutland. He made his fortune in duty-free retail in Thailand and his home had been left untouched following his death.
The second house on the burglars' list was the Knightsbridge home of Vichai Srivaddhanaprabha - the billionaire chairman of Leicester City football club, who the previous year had tragically died in a helicopter crash at Leicester's stadium. He was checking they were out - the first step in a plan to target three homes belonging to three very rich, very famous individuals. The £12 million property belonged to the TV presenter Christine Lampard and her husband Frank, the former Chelsea and England footballer.īut the caller did not want to meet the Lampards. Shortly before 7.15pm on the evening of Sunday, December 1, 2019, a young man rang the doorbell of a West London townhouse.
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