Cops hunt ruthless gang after four homes featured in hit TV comedy Ted Lasso are raided in £2m spree
Cops hunt ruthless gang after four homes featured in hit TV comedy Ted Lasso are raided in £2m spree
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A gang is being hunted by detectives after a £2million raid on flash homes featured in TV show Ted Lasso. Luxury houses were ransacked in London’s Richmond Green, The Sun reported last night. Residents say they were targeted after appearing in the comedy starring Jason Sudeikis and Hannah Waddingham. Four homes, including a £3.3million property used by Hannah Waddingham’s character, were raided by suspected professional criminals.
Police are linking the break-ins, which they believe were carried out by a team of professional burglars from South America. Victims include rock star Richard Ashcroft, who had about £1million of valuables stolen. Residents suspect the gang was attracted to the multimillion-pound homes around Richmond Green after seeing them in the Apple TV+ series.
One said: “It’s devastating. People are terrified they are going to be hit next.” An eight-bedroom home was the first to be raided, on November 2. The burglars stole a safe containing valuables including jewellery. The traumatised tenants then moved out, according to neighbours.
Early last month, raiders tried to break into a home used in Ted Lasso by Hannah’s businesswoman character Rebecca Welton. But the occupants were woken and the suspects fled, leaving a ladder in the garden. A four-bed house nearby was then trashed on December 18.
A bolted-down safe, said to contain about £400,000 of jewellery, was taken. The occupants had only just left, raising suspicions they were being watched. Then, on December 29, The Verve star Richard Ashcroft and musician wife Kate Radley had their £8million home ransacked while they were away.
