Rita Ora threatened to kill burglar in 999 call
“I will f*** you up – you f****** hear me?”
She made the threat during a frantic 999 call in which she sobbed: “Oh my God I don’t have a knife”.
“What do I do? Oh my God. F****** hell – I’m scared to go downstairs”.
She said: “That phone call freaked me out a bit – give me a moment”.
She reported that she had gone to bed around 2.30am after watching a film with a friend’.
‘I was half asleep, then woke up and heard my sister running up the stairs.
Elena Ora, who also lived at the address, then called out to him, chased him out of the house and ran up to her sister’s bedroom on the top floor, where Ora called the police.
The 999 call was played to a jury at Harrow Crown Court in London on Wednesday during an ongoing trial into the burglary.
“They’re going to come up the stairs”, she desperately told the police operator. “I will f– you up, you f– hear me”. “Can you send them right now?” I’m locked in my room. “Don’t you f****** come up these stairs”.
Asked where her sister was by the operator, Rita said: “She is here in my room. I don’t know if he is armed or anything, I think it’s just one”. “We need to have a backup plan”.
The singer’s sister later picked him out at an identity parade, saying he was the man who, during the raid, looked directly at her. He plead innocent to all counts of burglary and promised the court, “I haven’t done anything wrong, you can cell site my phone”.
“I was looking at him and he just said “Hello?’ I was really confused”. Her home was specifically targeted, say prosecutors.
The former X Factor judge was heard crying in court after the tape had finished.
The singer broke down in tears while giving evidence today in court as she recounted the £200,000 raid on her home in Kensal Rise, northwest London.
Elena has already told the jury she confronted an intruder and he “looked dead in my eyes”. Then I realised he was thief.
“What do I do – what do I do – oh my God?”
The thief grabbed a jewellery box and “whatever else he could” before dashing out of the house, Elena said.