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Premiership star's wife robbed at knifepoint

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Published Date: 02 December 2008

Robbers held a Premiership footballer's wife at knifepoint as he prepared for a match at Fratton Park.

Roque Santa Cruz and his Blackburn Rovers teammates were on their way to Sunday's match at Pompey when the Paraguayan striker's wife and two young children were subjected to a terrifying ordeal.

They were held up by three masked raiders who burst into their luxury home in Bowdon, Cheshire at around 6pm on Saturday.

Former beauty queen Giselle Santa Cruz, 24, was forced to hand over thousands of pounds worth of jewels to the three knifemen.

Santa Cruz, whose side lost 3-2 at Fratton Park on Sunday, was said by friends to be distraught when he discovered what had happened.

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