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Nevin Al Sukari - Sana'a - File picture of a fully functioning solid gold toilet, made by Italian artist Maurizio Cattelan, at the Guggenheim Museum in New York September 15, 2016. Two men were jailed yesterday for stealing an 18-carat golden toilet that had been on display as an artwork in an exhibition at Winston Churchill’s birthplace. — AFP pic
LONDON, June 14 — Two men were jailed yesterday for stealing an 18-carat golden toilet that had been on display as an artwork in an exhibition at Winston Churchill’s birthplace.
The fully functioning toilet, a work titled America by Italian artist Maurizio Cattelan, was stolen from the Churchill family seat of Blenheim Palace in southern England, a major tourist attraction and Unesco World Heritage Site.
Prosecutor Julian Christopher told jurors at the start of the trial at Oxford Crown Court in February that a group of five men had driven two stolen vehicles through locked wooden gates into the palace grounds before dawn on September 14, 2019.
They broke in through a window, smashed down a wooden door, ripped the toilet from the wall and left after five minutes in the building.
The toilet, weighing 98 kilos was insured for US$6 million (RM25 million). Prosecutors say it was probably divided into smaller amounts of gold to sell it off. None of the gold has ever been recovered.
James Sheen, 40, had pleaded guilty before trial to burglary, conspiring to convert or transfer the gold and converting or transferring the gold.
Michael Jones, 39, was found guilty of burglary by a jury, having pleaded not guilty.
Judge Ian Pringle said the pair had played important roles in the “bold and brazen heist”, though the judge said he could not be sure that Jones was present during the burglary.
Sheen was sentenced to four years in jail, with the sentence to begin at the end of a separate jail term of nearly 20 years he is currently serving for a series of thefts.
Jones was sentenced to 27 months in prison. — Reuters
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