Jenson Button and wife vow never to return to UK after £250k suitcase stolen on street

and his wife suffered a harrowing experience when a thief stole her suitcase with £250,000 worth of jewellery and designer outfits. While the ex-Formula One champion, 45, assisted their driver outside St Pancras International Station, an opportunist made off with Brittny's luxury Goyard luggage. The couple had just touched down in Britain from Paris.

Stashed within the stolen case was two Kelly bags worth approximately £70,000 and an array of precious, sentimental jewellery commemorating their wedding and the birth of their children, pushing the value beyond £250,000.

Brittny Button, 34, a mother to Jenson's two children and a fashion model, was left distraught by the event. She said: "I was kind of shocked. How like unsecure everything felt [in London] just so many people, [and] so chaotic."

Plainclothes officers apprehended the thief following distribution of CCTV footage to nearby station teams. Mourad Aid, 41, pled guilty in Westminster Magistrates' Court, where he now awaits sentencing in custody.

The British Transport Police released a video capturing Aid departing with the high-value luggage, having acted while Jenson momentarily turned away to load their vehicle.

"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 her Formula One legend husband in 2022, said.

"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."

Unfortunately for Jenson and Brittny, they are unlikely to get their belongings back after the claimed the items were spotted in online listings shortly after the incident.

She added: "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.

"I've heard countless stories. When we first started dating we would go to London, and it was such like a nice place to be, and now it just feels very kind of dark and scary. My husband and I we really have no interest going back to the UK and it's a shame, because, you know, we will have to go back for family and work

"It just feels so unsafe and doesn't feel how it once was, and its just unfortunate because that's where my children's grandmother and aunts live."