Burglar who targeted Raheem Sterling and Jamiroquai ordered to sell his house to pay £250,000 fine

convicted burglar who robbed England football star Raheem Sterling and the Buckinghamshire-based frontman of Jamiroquai has been ordered to pay a six-figure fine in the next three months. Thomas Mee, 45, has had his home taken from him having already been jailed for more than eight years.

Mee targeted the homes of Sterling and Jamiroquai's singer Jay Kay, who lives in Horsenden near High Wycombe. He was part of a gang who stole more than £600,000 in at least 14 burglaries across the country between November 2018 and October 2019, including in Buckinghamshire.

The group specifically targeted homes in affluent rural locations and stole high-value watches, designer handbags and jewellery. Mee, formerly of Queens Drive in Liverpool, was ruled by a judge to have benefited from his crimes to the sum of £586,117.36.

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At a court hearing on November 16, the court ordered him to pay £249,012.17 within the next three months or face a further two years behind bars as part of the Proceeds of Crime Act (POCA). This sum has been determined from equity in Mee’s home in Liverpool, which will need to be sold, along with cash, jewellery, designer clothing and funds from bank accounts.

Mee pleaded guilty to conspiracy to burgle and three counts of handling stolen goods at Chester Crown Court in July 2020. He is currently serving a sentence of eight years and seven months in prison.

His downfall came on October 5, 2020 when police received a 999 call from a resident in Prestbury, Cheshire reporting that a family member had disturbed intruders at their Macclesfield Road home. He was arrested while attempting to flee the property and subsequently charged with the burglaries