Property raider told Mark Cavendish he would ‘stab him up in entrance of his children’

Olympic bike owner Mark Cavendish and his wife ended up subjected to a knifepoint robbery while at house with their small children – with one particular masked raider threatening to stab the athlete, a courtroom heard. 

The burglars produced off with two Richard Mille watches, valued at £400,000 and £300,000 respectively, all through the raid in the Ongar location of Essex, Chelmsford Crown Courtroom was told. 

Cavendish and his spouse Peta had been in mattress with their 3-12 months-old boy or girl when they ended up awoken by noise in the early hrs of November 27 2021, mentioned Edward Renvoize, opening the prosecution case today. 

He stated that Cavendish considered the noise was ‘male voices and persons strolling all over in the house’. 

Mark Cavendish and his spouse Peta were in mattress with their 3-12 months-outdated youngster when they were being awoken by sounds in the early several hours of November 27 2021, stated Edward Renvoize, opening the prosecution situation today (pictured in the course of an celebration at the Guildhall in London)

‘Because Mr Cavendish was recovering from a variety of accidents at the time it was Mrs Cavendish who acquired up and went to look into what they experienced listened to,’ Mr Renvoize claimed. 

‘Her first imagined was maybe her more mature son had obtained up and may perhaps have knocked something more than downstairs.’ 

He stated Peta read male voices that appeared to be coming from the kitchen space.

‘She was up coming conscious of figures of folks working towards her,’ reported the barrister.

‘She ran again up the stairs shouting for her spouse to get back again into the bed room.’ 

Mr Renvoize reported that she acquired again into the bed room and Cavendish looked for a ‘panic alarm that he had’. 

Mr Renvoize explained that some of the raiders ‘jumped on’ Cavendish and ‘began punching him and telling him to flip the alarm off’. 

‘One manufactured a knife and threatened to stab him up in front of his youngsters,’ explained the prosecutor. 

‘At this level there had been 3 in the area and they started inquiring where the watches were. 

‘There was a safe in the home and he was requested to open it. 

‘When he experimented with the battery appeared to have absent dead. 

‘He reported there was practically nothing in it in any case as the few had been burgled the yr just before and every thing experienced been taken. 

‘He was consistently questioned wherever the other safe was.’ 

Mr Renvoize explained Cavendish instructed the thieves there was no other protected.

‘Mrs Cavendish through this time was looking following her a few-yr-aged youngster,’ he claimed. 

‘She was trying to keep her three-12 months-old son less than the quilt to stop him viewing the ordeal in the bedroom.’ 

The thieves created off with two Richard Mille watches, valued at £400,000 and £300,000 respectively, in the course of the raid in the Ongar area of Essex, Chelmsford Crown Court was instructed

Peta Cavendish recalled just one of the burglars coming into the bed room with a Louis Vuitton suitcase, the prosecutor said 

The prosecutor stated Peta ‘tried to use her phone to simply call the police’, but an intruder ‘grabbed the phone’. 

‘She confirmed she hadn’t termed the law enforcement,’ he reported. 

‘The assailants then gathered all the telephones from the bedroom. 

‘She thinks 1 of the guys put her cellular phone into his pocket.’ 

Mr Renvoize explained Peta was ‘asked for the watch’ and Cavendish ‘pointed to his watch on the windowsill’. 

‘One of the thieves stated ‘that’s not it’,’ claimed the prosecutor, who included that it was a Richard Mille watched valued at £400,000. 

He mentioned that Peta’s observe, also a Richard Mille and valued at £300,000, was also taken. 

Peta Cavendish recalled one particular of the intruders coming into the bedroom with a Louis Vuitton suitcase, the prosecutor reported. 

‘The assailants requested that the gates have been opened,’ he claimed. ‘The robbers then left. 

‘They took the telephones, the suitcases and watches.’ 

He mentioned it appeared that the intruders had left by 2.32am, and when Cavendish and his spouse went downstairs they noticed a patio doorway had been smashed. 

Mr Renvoize explained that right before the raid, CCTV cameras had captured vehicles driving earlier the home in what ‘appeared to be a reconnaissance mission’ of the semi-rural spot. 

He stated a automobile then pulled up and turned off the lights and ‘four individuals’ ended up viewed on digicam producing their way nearer into the home. 

He explained that Peta Cavendish’s phone was found outdoors the residence, and that the ‘misplacing of that telephone by 1 of the robbers’ was an ‘error in what was a diligently prepared and executed robbery’. 

‘Police obtained maintain of the cell phone and observed there was a get hold of mark on it,’ stated Mr Renvoize. 

‘They forensically examined it for the existence of DNA and DNA was recorded.’ 

He stated that the DNA was attributed to 28-yr-previous Ali Sesay, of Keeping Road, Rainham, east London. 

Mr Renvoize informed jurors that Sesay had ‘pleaded responsible to the offence of robbery already’. 

The prosecutor explained that ‘rather effective cyclist’ Cavendish and his wife Peta, a ‘successful model and media personality’, have been ‘subjected to a knifepoint theft in their household at about 2.30 in the morning’

Mr Renvoize reported that some of the raiders ‘jumped on’ Cavendish and ‘began punching him and telling him to turn the alarm off’. ‘One created a knife and threatened to stab him up in front of his children,’ said the prosecutor

He said that police ‘were capable to discover a range of other persons who appeared to have been in interaction with a telephone belonging to Mr Sesay’. 

Romario Henry, 31, of Bell Green, Lewisham, south-east London and 28-calendar year-previous Oludewa Okorosobo, of Flaxman Street, Camberwell, south London, each deny two counts of robbery and are on demo. 

They are accused of robbing Cavendish of a view, cell phone and harmless, and to robbing the athlete’s spouse of a observe, telephone and suitcase. 

Mr Renvoize reported jurors will hear aspects about two a lot more males through the trial, Jo Jobson and George Goddard. 

The prosecutor said that ‘rather prosperous cyclist’ Cavendish and his wife Peta, a ‘successful model and media personality’, have been ‘subjected to a knifepoint theft in their household at about 2.30 in the morning’. 

He explained the ‘robbers were armed with big knives’, ‘had hid their identification with balaclavas’ and ‘meted out violence to Mark Cavendish’. 

‘It’s quite very clear the assailants had been intrigued in obtaining watches and as soon as they acquired the watches they remaining the premises with quite very little else,’ explained Mr Renvoize. 

He described the raid as a ‘well-orchestrated and properly-executed planned invasion of the dwelling of a well-known person with the intention of grabbing superior-price timepieces’. 

He reported it appeared that two vehicles have been utilised, and the prosecution scenario is that it did not subject irrespective of whether individuals were being drivers or entered the home, as all experienced a ‘specific role’. 

The demo, believed to past around two months, continues.