Through the guilt of WC flight in solid gold in 2019 in an England Castle, two men were sentenced this Friday, June 13 by British justice to imprisonment sanctions
James Sheen, 40, and Michael Jones, 39, were respectively sentenced by the Oxford Court four years and 27 months in prison for stealing the baptized sculpture America of the artist Maurizio Cattelan, and having organized the sale of gold that constitutes this work.
Considered the group’s brain, James Sheen had declared himself guilty of this flight in April 2024. The court indicated that he was already serving a 19 -year prison for a series of other flights, including the theft of a museum and automatic ticket attacks. Michael Jones has been working for Sheen since 2018 and was his “man to the right,” he explained during an audience.
The gold of the toilet probably melted
These 18 Carats gold WCS, with functional seat, bowl and download, had an estimated value of 4.8 million pounds (5.7 million euros). They were dismantled by the robbery gang and the work was not found. According to the Prosecutor’s Office, he probably melted and gold certainly sold shortly after the flight.
On May 19, a third man, Frederick Snes Dit Fred Doe, 37, was sentenced to a 21 -month prison sentence suspended by the same court. It had been described as an “intermediary” for limited paper.
Bathrooms America Were the emblematic piece of the exhibition dedicated in September 2019 to the Iconoclast Maurizio Cattelan in the Palais de Blenheim, a 18th -century house in Oxfordshire, classified as a Unesco World Heritage site and where Winston Churchill was born.
They had been exhibited for the first time at the Guggenheim Museum in New York, where they had been used by about 100,000 people between September 2016 and summer 2017.
Source: BFM TV
