{"id":2265252,"date":"2026-02-03T19:49:06","date_gmt":"2026-02-03T19:49:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/?p=2265252"},"modified":"2026-02-03T19:49:06","modified_gmt":"2026-02-03T19:49:06","slug":"armed-robber-who-tried-to-break-into-anya-taylor-joys-london-bedroom-sentenced","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/armed-robber-who-tried-to-break-into-anya-taylor-joys-london-bedroom-sentenced\/","title":{"rendered":"Armed robber who tried to break into Anya Taylor-Joy&#8217;s London bedroom sentenced"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content%2Fuploads%2Fsites%2F2%2F2026%2F02%2F120332628.jpg?quality%3D90%26strip%3Dall\" \/><\/p>\n<div>\n<p>LONDON \u2014 An armed robber who <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2024\/11\/04\/entertainment\/anya-taylor-joy-husband-had-to-hide-in-closet-of-pals-uk-mansion-during-2023-burglary-report\/\">smashed into a luxury London home where Hollywood star\u00a0Anya Taylor-Joy\u00a0was staying<\/a> and tried to force his way into the actor\u2019s bedroom with a crowbar was sentenced to three years in prison, officials said Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p>Prosecutors said that the way Kirk Holdrick and another masked man tried to get into the star\u2019s bedroom, rather than steal expensive items in the house, suggested they intended to target Taylor-Joy and her husband personally.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"nyp-slideshow-modal-image wp-block-image aligncenter size-large\"><figcaption>The armed robber who broke into the London mansion where Anya Taylor-Joy was staying in 2023 was sentenced to three years in prison. <span class=\"credit\">REUTERS<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure class=\"nyp-slideshow-modal-image wp-block-image aligncenter size-large\"><figcaption>Kirk Holdrick broke into the London home and attempted to get into the bedroom with a crowbar. <span class=\"credit\">Metropolitian Police<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>The \u201cQueen\u2019s Gambit\u201d star and her husband, <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/pagesix.com\/2023\/10\/02\/anya-taylor-joy-and-malcolm-mcrae-have-star-studded-wedding-in-venice-1-year-after-quietly-getting-married\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">musician Malcolm McRae<\/a>, were staying at a London house on Feb. 12, 2023 when Holdrick and another man, who were both wearing balaclavas and gloves, scaled a wall and broke into the property.<\/p>\n<aside class=\"single__inline-module aligncenter wp-block-nypost-editor-primary-tag\">\n<\/aside>\n<p>McRae locked the door of their bedroom before the intruders tried to prise the door open. The burglars fled after McRae shouted out that he had a gun.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"nyp-slideshow-modal-image wp-block-image aligncenter size-large\"><figcaption>Taylor-Joy\u2019s husband Malcolm McRae was in the house at the time of the break-in. <span class=\"credit\">Aissaoui Nacer \/ BACKGRID<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>The Crown Prosecution Service said Holdrick was sentenced to three years in prison for the case at London\u2019s Woolwich Crown Court on Dec. 12. The details of the case were reported Tuesday by the Press Association news agency, which obtained the sentencing documents.<\/p>\n<p>Holdrick, who was already serving other sentences for separate armed robberies, initially denied being responsible for the burglary but later changed his plea to guilty.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><em> \u2018 The preceding article may include information circulated by third parties \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n<p><em> \u2018 Some details of this article were extracted from the following source celebrity.land \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>LONDON \u2014 An armed robber who smashed into a luxury London home where Hollywood star\u00a0Anya Taylor-Joy\u00a0was staying and tried to force his way into the actor\u2019s bedroom with a crowbar was sentenced to three years in prison, officials said Wednesday. Prosecutors said that the way Kirk Holdrick and another masked man tried to get into [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2265253,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[25174],"tags":[356677,21751,21741,25741,423468,345773,27727,22814],"class_list":["post-2265252","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-gossip","tag-anya-taylor-joy","tag-celebrities","tag-entertainment","tag-london","tag-robberies","tag-sentencing","tag-united-kingdom","tag-world-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/Armed-robber-who-tried-to-break-into-Anya-Taylor-Joys-London.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2265252","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2265252"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2265252\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2265254,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2265252\/revisions\/2265254"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2265253"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2265252"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2265252"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2265252"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}