Jenson Button’s wife, Brittny, said she now feels London is “unsecure” and “chaotic” following the shocking theft, which happened outside St Pancras International Station
Jenson Button and his wife were targeted by a thug who stole her suitcase containing £250,000 worth of lavish jewellery and designer handbags.
The former F1 driver, 45, was helping the chauffer load the car when a man swooped in and sped away with wife Brittny’s Goyard carry-on suitcase in mere seconds. outside St Pancras International Station. The couple had just returned to the UK after a romantic getaway in Paris.
The suitcase was filled with more than £250,000 worth of items, which included two Kelly bags totalling to around £70,000, as well as countless sentimental and antique jewellery from her wedding and the birth of her daughter.
The ordeal left 34-year-old Brittny, who has two children with Jenson, in tears. Speaking this week, the model and interior designer said: “I was kind of shocked. How like unsecure everything felt [in London] just so many people, [and] so chaotic.”
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The thief was brought to justice when plain clothes officers arrested the assailant after CCTV was circulated to teams in and around the train station. Mourad Aid, 41, pleaded guilty to theft at Westminster Magistrates’ Court, and has been remanded in custody for sentencing.
Footage issued by British Transport Police shows Aid casually walking away from the scene, carrying the suitcase. He pounced when Jenson briefly turned his back to it, as his suitcase was loaded into the front seat of the chauffeur’s car.
“We had no idea until Jenson went, ‘Wait where is your bag’ and he raced off trying to find it, but he [the thief] was already gone,” Brittny, who married the racing driver in 2022, added.
“I just started crying, I was a little upset with Jensen because I felt like he kind of dropped the ball a little but its not his fault someone was watching us. He also did get his bag stolen a few months ago in a car park in London. It definitely was shocking that I just didn’t think. I’m normally pretty cautious when I’m out in public and travelling, but I just didn’t think that there were gangs literally just waiting for people and watching.”
The mother of two will likely never retrieve her stolen items, which Mail Online reports where listed online only days after the incident. Speaking to the publication, Brittny, born in Sacramento, California, continued: “Unfortunately, I saw online the shady-looking photos of these guys holding my bags on their lap. I knew I was probably never getting them back, and who knows how many hands it had touched – at that point I was not really interested. I wasn’t going to send anyone to meet with these people.”
