Terrified Rita Ora in threat to kill thief

Rita Ora bravely protected her sister and threatened to “fuck up” a thief in a £200,000 raid on the singer’s home, a court has heard.

The former X Factor judge, 25, and her sister, Elena, were both asleep upstairs when two men broke into the three-storey house in a targeted attack.

Charaf Elmoudden, 26, and an accomplice allegedly made off with jewellery, iPhones, Apple Mac computers, bags, and clothes from the singer’s four-bedroom property in north-west London.

Elena woke up at around 5.50am to find a man rifling through her bedroom before Ora phoned the police. The singer sobbed “I don’t have a knife” and threatened to kill the thieves in a frantic 999 call, which was played to a jury at Harrow Crown Court.

She was heard screaming “Don’t you fucking come up these stairs. I will fuck you up — you fucking hear me?” after locking herself in her room with her sister.

“Oh my God I don’t have a knife, I know they’re going to come upstairs.

“What do I do? what do I do? Oh my God. Fucking hell I’m scared to go downstairs.”

Ora was heard saying to Elena during the 999 call: “At least he didn’t touch you.

She later asked the operator: “What do you want me to do now? I will kill him.”

Ora, who gave evidence from behind a curtain, broke down in tears after the recording was played.

“That phone call freaked me out a bit — give me a moment,” she added.

She said she watched a movie with a girlfriend before going to bed at around 2.30am.

“I went to sleep and was woken up by a scream,” she said. “I was half asleep then woke up and heard my sister running up the stairs. I opened the door... she just ran up the stairs then she jumped on my bed and started screaming.”

The singer was escorted from the court before putting on a pair of large sunglasses in the foyer and leaving through a back entrance.

Ora had returned to the semi-detached house she shares with her family at around midnight on November 27 last year and was asleep in her bedroom on the top floor during the raid, the court was told. Prosecutor Mark Kinsey said her house was deliberately chosen by the thieves because they knew she lived there.

Elmoudden, of Sydney Road, Muswell Hill, north London, denies the charge of burglary on November 28 last year.