Tamara Ecclestone offers £6m reward to recover jewellery stolen by burglars | UK News
Tamara Ecclestone is offering a £6 million reward for information that could lead to the recovery of jewelry that has been stolen from her home.
Ms Ecclestone’s mansion in Palace Green was ransacked in December 2019, with the perpetrators stealing £25million worth of cash, jewelry and gems in the biggest ever heist.
The daughter of former Formula One driver Bernie Ecclestone said she is “following Mel Gibson style from the movie Ransom” to recall the items.
When the theft happened, the 38-year-old woman was vacationing in Lapland with her husband, art gallery owner Jay Rutland, and their daughter and dog.
Miss Ecclestone said she was “petrified” and “security obsession” following the Isleworth Crown Court raid last year.
Three men were jailed for the theft last November but according to Ms Ecclestone, the only stolen property ever recovered was a pair of earrings.
The police say that the gang responsible has done it similar crimes against famous victims across Europe and is planning further raids in the UK.
Former Chelsea FC midfielder and manager Frank Lampard have previously been targeted, as has the late Leicester City FC owner Vichai Srivaddhanaprabha.
Ms Ecclestone said on Sunday that the incident “remains traumatic for my family and me to this day” as she offered the reward on Instagram.
“The thought of those disgusting people, rummaging through every room of my house, breaking into my house, touching my belongings and stealing some of the most precious things to me, means I will I can never rest my head. That house again with the same sense of security that I once had.”
Her daughter “still asks if the thieves come back and don’t sleep alone,” she said, adding that she would “happily” offer a reward of a quarter of the value of anything. recovered by the police due to a tip. .
“Although I have accepted that I will probably never see my stolen belongings again, I will happily offer a 25% reward of anything the police can recover. from information provided by a source.
“If you’re the source, you get rewarded. It’s that simple,” she wrote.
Additional Bonuses for Daniel Vukovic
Ms Ecclestone also said she was offering a £250,000 reward for “giving Daniel Vukovic to the police in London”.
“This man thinks he can go into the sunset with all the spoils of robbing my family and me,” she added.
Vukovic, who is believed to be of Serbian nationality, was brought to court as the fourth suspected member of the gang. According to police, his aliases include Alfredo Lindley, Ljubomir Radosavljevic and Ljubomir Romanov.
The court heard him flee to the Serbian capital Belgrade and is believed to remain there after the failure to extradite him.
According to the Metropolitan Police, he is still being searched by detectives from the special crime division.
Isleworth Crown Court found that Italian citizens Jugoslav Jovanovic, Alessandro Maltese and Alessandro Donati, were behind three raids in west London in December 2019.
They all received prison sentences last year after being extradited from Italy and pleaded guilty to conspiracy to steal.
Jovanovic, who was jailed for 11 years, also admitted conspiracy to launder money and one count of attempting to convert criminal property. Maltese and Donati were sentenced to eight years and nine months.