Judge tells John Terry he shouldn't have posted Instagram picture showing he was on holiday
as she jails burglary gang who raided his £5million Surrey mansion for 28 years.
A judge has told John Terry that he should not have posted an Instagram picture showing
he was on holiday as she jailed a gang of burglars who deliberately targeted his mansion.
The ex-Chelsea footballer and current Aston Villa captain was on a skiing holiday with
his family when their £5million mansion was raided and ransacked in February.
Referring to the Terry burglary, Judge Susan Tapping said: 'It might have been a mistake
to post a family photograph on social media to show he was away on holiday.
'As a result his home was deliberately targeted and the master bedroom suite was ransacked.
'They spent some time searching for items to steal.
Not content with the original haul they returned with a third man and an angle grinder determined
to get into the safe.'
Darren Eastaugh, 30, Joshua Sumer, 27, Roy Head, 28, and Oliver Hart, 25, pleaded guilty
to one count of conspiracy to commit burglary between February 1 and March 27 this year.
The conspiracy involved seven burglaries across Surrey and Sussex earlier this year, with
a total lost from all of them was £600,000.
Today all four were jailed for a total of 27 years and 11 months at Kingston Crown Court.
A fifth man, Kye Hardy-King, 25, pleaded guilty to one count of handling stolen goods when
some of the stolen property was found at his home.
They struck after the footballer, who now captains Championship side Aston Villa, posed
for pictures on the slopes of the French Alps with his wife Toni, 35, boasting to his 3.4million
followers that he was having a 'great few days away skiing with the family'.
But while the couple happily shared photos and videos of their lavish holiday, they didn't
realise the posts had attracted the attention of a ruthless gang of prolific burglars.
The men broke into their £5million mansion in Oxshott, Surrey, and spent hours ransacking
the property, swiping designer handbags worth £126,000 and rare signed first edition Harry
Potter books valued at £18,000.
Sentencing them today, the judge said: 'Over a period of about one month earlier this year
four of the defendants together with others unidentified, set out on a series of carefully
planned burglaries.
'By the time police surveillance was in place, some defendants were seen spending time looking
for suitable homes to be targeted.
'Large detached houses were only considered because of the expectation high value luxury
goods would be available.
'In fact it was a very successful campaign and during the the course of seven burglaries
£600,000 worth of luxury items were stolen.
She added: 'Four of the defendants are experienced, if not professional burglars.'
She said the gang made away with nearly £400,000 in either items stolen or damaged out of the
seven burglaries this was 'most profitable', and none of the items have been recovered.
Not all of the burglaries were at night and some were carried out while someone was in
the house, including a recently widowed woman who found one of them in her kitchen.
The court heard she has now been left feeling 'nervous and isolated in her own home'.
The judge said: 'The mental turmoil may be harder to heal fully rather than a physical
injury.
All these victims have the right to feel safe in their own homes.'
Knowing that no one was home, the audacious gang took their time strolling around his
property armed with axes.
They spent 45 minutes plundering the master bedroom before returning later that night
to break into a safe.
Yesterday, Kingston Crown Court had heard how an 'eye watering' collection of designer
jewellery and handbags were looted from the 'vast' collection of Mrs Terry.
She loves designer handbags so much that her 36-year-old husband had a handbag shaped cake
made for her birthday last year, which she proudly shared on Instagram.
The raiders discovered that the footballer's wife had so many handbags, they were unable
to carry them all and instead plumped only for the 28 most valuable items.
That included a £42,000 snakeskin Hermes bag, Chanel bags worth £8,000 and others
from Gucci, Louis Vuitton and Yves Saint Laurent.
Details of the raid on February 25 this year emerged for the first time earlier this week.
The former Chelsea captain and his wife regularly post pictures on Instagram, Twitter and Facebook
revealing their lavish lifestyle.
They had recently shared photographs of their exclusive gated estate in Surrey including
the front door and luxury interior of their mock Georgian property, which previously belonged
to golf star Colin Montgomerie.
But just a short time after revealing they were on a ski holiday, the housekeeper staying
at an apartment above the garage of their three-storey home noticed security lights
going on and off around the property around midnight, which he mistook for a fox.
The court was shown CCTV from outside the home showing two of the gang entering the
property at around 10.30pm, spending 45 minutes taking £219,000 of Cartier jewellery, a £61,000
eternity ring, and handfuls of designer watches from the Terry's master bedroom.
They returned with a third man at around 2am and spent nearly an hour in the Terry's master
bedroom where they tried to get into the safe.
At 2.55am, the housekeeper was awoken by loud banging coming from the master bedroom which
triggered the burglar alarm.
When officers arrived at 3am they were stunned by the scenes of 'carnage' which greeted them
as the gang had caused £19,000 worth of damage, wrecking £3,900 carpets and a bespoke £3,600
headboard.
Rossano Scamardella, prosecuting, said: 'Cupboard doors opened and cupboards emptied with that
which wasn't taken strewn across the floor, a dressing table and cupboard completely dismantled,
damage to the windows and to the bed, lamps broken, carpets completely ruined.'
Inside they also found heavy-duty tools, hammers and an axe and an angle grinder, which was
used to try to enter the Terry's safe in the bedroom.
The prosecutor said: 'The loss sustained by the Terry's was substantial.
One will see there is an eye watering list which includes designer jewellery and designer
handbags in particular.
'There were some first edition signed Harry Potter books worth £18,000 and a trophy.
'Handbags to the value of £126,000, were stolen including Louis Vuitton and Chanel
as well as other brands.
'One snake skin handbag was valued at £42,000.
There was a number of handbags left behind so quite a vast collection.
'The total value of items stolen was £380,000.
The total for damage was more than £19,000.'
At a previous hearing Darren Eastaugh, 30, Joshua Sumer, 27, Roy Head, 28, and 25-year-old
Oliver Hart pleaded guilty to one count of conspiracy to commit burglary between February
1 and March 27 this year.
The conspiracy involved seven burglaries across Surrey and Sussex earlier this year, with
a total lost from all of them was £600,000.
A fifth man Kye Hardy-King, 25, pleaded guilty to one count of handling stolen goods when
some of the stolen property was found at his home.
None of the items taken during the Terry raid have ever been recovered.
Other victims targeted included multi-millionaire trailer home businessmen Alfie Best, known
as the 'gypsy king' who had nearly £150,000 worth of luxury goods stolen weeks after the
raid on Mr Terry's home.
Mr Best was born into a Romany gypsy family and made his millions from a luxury trailer
home business and his property empire.
He recently appeared in the Channel 4 series 'How'd you get so rich?' where he discussed
his £250million fortune and how he spends it.
The court was told Eastaugh, Hart, Head and Sumer all have a string of previous convictions
stretching back 10 years.
The defendants were identified from the CCTV at the footballer's house as well as footage
from a nearby petrol garage and cell site data from their mobile phones which placed
all of them in the area at the time.
The court heard each of the defendants had a long history of offending.
Head had a 12 year history of offending including one conviction for burglary in 2011 which
was committed with Eastaugh - with each of them sentenced to 12 months.
In 2014 he was jailed for more than five years for conspiracy to burgle a commercial property
alongside Sumer and was still on licence when he committed the latest offences.
The court heard he was involved in six of the burglaries.
Head, of Walton-on-Thames, was sentenced to a total of seven years and four months.
Eastaugh also has a long record and most recently was jailed for three and a half years for
three burglaries in 2015.
He was out on licence at the time of the conspiracy.
Eastaugh, of Bedfont, was jailed for seven years and thee months.
Hart, has nine years of previous convictions, including for burglary, handling stolen goods,
and going equipped.
At the time of the raids he was serving a suspended sentence for a driving offence.
Hart, also of Bedfont, was jailed for five years four months.
Sumer also has a string of previous convictions and was also still on licence when he committed
the first and last of the two burglaries.
The two were where the most valuable items were stolen, giving a total of just under
£550,000.
Sumer, of Havant, was jailed for eight years.
For the lesser charge of handling stolen property, Hardy-King, of Hounslow, was given a 12 month
sentence suspended for 12 months.
He was ordered to carry out a rehabilitation requirement and made the subject of a two
month curfew from 10pm to 6am.
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