The former
England and Chelsea captain’s £5 million mansion was broken into in February as
he posed for pictures with his wife Toni, 35, and his two children, revealing
to his Instagram followers that he was having a “great few days away skiing
with the family”.
A gang of
burglars took the advantage of his family holiday and broke into his property
in Oxshott, Surrey, with axes and spent hours helping themselves to designer
handbags worth £126,000 and rare signed first edition Harry Potter books valued
at £18,000, according to reports.
CCTV
captured the thieves using a ladder to get into the Terrys’ master bedroom.
It was
claimed that the thieves found so many handbags they were unable to carry them
all, taking 28 of the most valuable items including a £42,000 snakeskin Hermes
bag, Chanel bags worth £8,000 and others from Gucci, Louis Vuitton and Yves
Saint Laurent.
The gang of
five Darren Eastaugh, 30, Joshua Sumer, 27, Roy Head, 28, and 25-year-old
Oliver Hart were subsequently arrested by police cops, who tracked them by
using
mobile phone records after they were seen at a nearby fuel station.
During a
previous court appearance, they pleaded guilty to one count of conspiracy to
commit burglary between February 1 and March 27 this year involving seven
burglaries across Surrey and Sussex.
The 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.
Rossano
Scamardella, a prosecuting officer, said: ''Mr. Terry made the mistake of
posting a photograph of himself and his family on the social media platform,
Instagram.
"Revealing
as it must have done to anyone who saw it, that their house was empty."
According to
Police report, none of the items taken during the Terry raid have ever been
recovered.
The five men
admitted conspiracy to commit burglary and are expected to be sentenced later
today at the Kingston Crown Court.
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