Four men charged over theft of £4.8m gold toilet from Blenheim Palace
Four men charged over theft of £4.8m gold toilet from Blenheim Palace
Art installation, entitled America, was part of art exhibition by Maurizio Cattelan
That will be a nice explanation when they arrive in prison.
- What are you here for?
- I stole a shitter and got caught...
They would have been caught much sooner, but police have been bogged down lately.
They must have been clogged with paperwork.
This is the best summary I could come up with:
The Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) said on Monday it had authorised criminal charges against four men, who will appear at Oxford magistrates court on 28 November.
As it was plumbed in at the time, its removal caused flooding and damage to the 18th-century stately home and Unesco world heritage site in Woodstock.
It was moved to Blenheim and into a chamber opposite the room where Churchill was born, for Cattelan’s first solo UK show in more than 20 years.
Before the toilet’s installation, the duke’s half-brother, Edward Spencer-Churchill, founder of the Blenheim Art Foundation, said the lavatory would not be “the easiest thing to nick”.
He added that it was deeply ironic for the work “portraying the American dream” and the elite object made available to all was “instantly snatched away and hidden from view”.
Criminal proceedings against James Sheen, Michael Jones, Fred Doe and Bora Guccuk are now active and they each have the right to a fair trial.
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