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A gang of burglars who targeted Premier League star Alexander Isak and made £1.2m in a series of high-value heists have been ordered to repay just £1,100. Four Italian nationals - three men and one woman - were jailed for a total of more than 30 years earlier this year for targeting three homes.

As the quartet were sentenced at Newcastle Crown Court , it emerged they had spent hours in the vicinity of Newcastle United's Benton training ground in reconnaissance missions to work out the Swedish forward's movements.

When they were arrested, police also found pictures of the footballer on a mobile phone seized from one of the gang. Family members Valentino Nikolov, Charlie Jovanovic, Jela Jovanovic, and Giacomo Nikolov were all locked up for conspiracy to burgle, a crime t

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