Staff member Eleanor Paice saw the final moments as the gang made off with the toilet Five men had smashed their way into the palace, ripped out a £4.8m solid gold toilet and fled in a stolen ...
The toilet weighing 98 kilos was insured for $6 million. Prosecutors say it was probably divided into smaller amounts of gold to sell it off. Michael Jones, 39, was found guilty of burglary at ...
(L-R) Bora Guccuk, Frederick Doe and Michael Jones are on trial at Oxford Crown Court The 18-carat gold, fully-functional toilet was part of an exhibition by the Italian conceptual artist Maurizio ...
One of the men on trial over the theft of a £4.75 million gold toilet from Blenheim Palace had scoured the internet for details about the raid, a jury has been told. Within days of the burglary, ...
The glimmering commode, an artwork by Maurizio Cattelan, was stolen during a break-in at Winston Churchill’s ancestral home in 2019. By Alex Marshall Alex Marshall has covered the case of the ...
Jurors in the trial of three men accused over the theft of a £4.8m solid gold toilet have retired to consider their verdicts. The 18-carat artwork was taken from Blenheim Palace in Oxfordshire in ...
Giving evidence, Mr Jones said he had visited the exhibition the day before and been "at home in bed" when the toilet was stolen. The 18-carat gold, fully-functional toilet was part of an ...