Man sentenced after trying to break into Anya Taylor-Joy's bedroom during burglary

A antheral has been sentenced for breaking into a location wherever histrion Anya Taylor-Joy was staying and utilizing a crowbar to effort to get into her bedroom.

Kirk Holdrick, 43, and different antheral smashed their mode into the London mansion successful balaclavas successful the aboriginal hours of 12 February 2023.

They were confronted by Taylor-Joy's husband, Malcolm MacRae, who had gone to analyse the dependable of breaking glass.

He ran backmost to the chamber and barricaded himself and his woman successful - equipped lone with a lamp - arsenic the raiders tried to prise unfastened the door.

CCTV captured Holdrick and his accomplice climbing a partition to the location and becoming "startled" arsenic they triggered a information light.

Wood Green Crown Court heard they fled aft MacRae claimed to person a gun.

Prosecutors judge they whitethorn person been specifically targeting the Hollywood star.

Taylor-Joy - known for productions specified arsenic The Queen's Gambit and the Dune films - was inactive barricaded wrong with her hubby erstwhile constabulary arrived.

Nine days later, Holdrick broke into different location successful the celebrated millionaires' enclave of Sandbanks and tied up a pistillate and her girl astatine gunpoint.

Holdrick and accomplice Ashley Fulton dressed arsenic constabulary to summation entry.

They dragged the girl by her hairsbreadth and threatened to pain her with an robust and sprout her dormant if they weren't fixed the codification to the safe.

They failed but made disconnected with astir £200,000 worthy of watches, jewellery and cash.

In November, helium was jailed for 12 years aft admitting the Sandbanks raid and received a further three-year word this week for the burglary involving Taylor-Joy and her husband.

He initially denied the London burglary and claimed DNA recovered astatine the country was determination due to the fact that helium had been to a enactment astatine the property.

However, helium pleaded blameworthy successful December past year.

Holdrick, who erstwhile dated a formed subordinate from The Only Way Is Essex, was besides jailed for beingness successful 2005 for an equipped robbery connected a information van and has convictions dating backmost to his teens.