A CROWBAR-wielding robber who tried to smash into Anya Taylor-Joy’s bedroom as she barricaded herself inside has been jailed.
Kirk Holdrick, 43, was one of two masked men who smashed their way into the luxury property in London.
Taylor-Joy’s rockstar husband Malcolm McRae confronted the intruders before barricading himself and his wife inside one of the bedrooms.
The robbers then tried to prise open the door with a crowbar during the terrifying raid in February 2023.
McRae was armed only with a lamp to defend himself but managed to scare the thieves off by shouting out: “I have a gun, I have a gun.”
They fled empty-handed but nine days later, Holdrick, who dated Towie star Hannah Voyan, tied up a mum and her daughter at gunpoint in another raid in Sandbanks, Dorset.
Holdrick was jailed for life in 2005 for armed robberies on a security van transporting cash and a jewellers.
He was recalled to prison to continue serving his life sentence after his latest offences and, last November, he was jailed for 12 years for the Sandbanks robbery.
Holdrick has now been handed a further three-year prison sentence for the burglary involving Taylor-Joy and her husband.
Wood Green Crown Court heard the Golden Globe-winning actress, 29, was staying at the London mansion with her husband and his musical partner in the band More, Kane Ritchotte, when the break-in happened.
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The couple heard glass in a side door of the home being smashed and McRae went to investigate.
When he saw Holdrick and another man – both wearing balaclavas and gloves – forcing their way into the property, the singer and guitarist shouted “hey, stop” before retreating.
He ran back to the bedroom where he and his wife were staying, locked the door and told Queen’s Gambit star Taylor-Joy to hide behind the bed.
McRae then armed himself with a lamp as the intruders started to force the bedroom door open with a crowbar.
When the police arrived, Taylor-Joy and McRae were still barricaded inside the bedroom – with damage seen on the door frame.
They said they had been traumatised by the ordeal and feared being targeted again in the future.
The court heard the way the burglars tried to get into the bedroom, rather than stealing expensive items, suggested they were intending to target the celeb couple personally.
Nine days later, he and accomplice Ashley Fulton disguised themselves as police officers to target Mark Aitchison – CEO of Colten Care, which owns 21 care homes in the south of England.
The thugs smashed their way into the £2.5million home in Sandbanks and bound Mark’s wife Kerry, 55, by her hands and feet.
When daughter Emily arrived home, the armed robbers dragged her around by her hair and threatened to burn her with an iron.
They also chillingly warned the estate agent they would shoot her in front of Kerry unless she opened the family’s safe.
But brave Emily refused to comply with the thugs’ demands and wrongly entered the code twice.
She then caused the intruders to flee after telling them putting it in incorrectly a third time would trigger an alarm.
The thugs managed to make off more than £200,000 of luxury watches, designer handbags, jewellery, cash and their mobile phones.
Holdrick, who is originally from Borehamwood in Hertfordshire, has convictions dating back to when he was a teenager, including burglaries.
He pleaded guilty in Bournemouth to two counts of robbery, possession of an imitation firearm, and fraud in relation to the Sandbanks raid.
Fulton, 43, was jailed for life with a minimum of nine years and 192 days for robbery, possession of an imitation firearm and a string of fraud offences for the robbery.
