The golden toilet was used by the suspect the day before Heist, who said it is "splendid"

The solid golden toilet was later sold for pieces (pictures: pa)

A member of a gang of thieves who rolled a gold toilet of 4.75 million pounds away from the Blenheim Palace and wrapped it back just a day before Heist.

Michael Jones, 39, told Oxford Crown Court that it is “Splendid” to use the completely operating toilet, which was installed as an art work at Oxfordshire Country House, where Sir Winston Churchill was born.

The raid was released in September 2019, the court said that Jones took more pictures in front of the robbery.

One of the windows, which was later broken to steal the golden toilet was caught to “surprise the view of the Union in the distance,” Jones said.

Also, a lock was photographed on the cubic at the toilet. The defendant said it was because he thought he was “quite funny that you can actually block in the toilet.”

18 carat toilet that was created by Italian The artist Maurizio Cattelan was a star attraction in an exhibition when it was stolen by the thieves who wore a sled who threw their way into the palace.

Hurrying of the screen taken from CCTV from 14/09/19 issued by the Police in Thames Valley, which shows one of the three men returning to vehicles carrying a gold toilet chair in front of the Blenheim Palace, while the thieves rolled a gold toilet of 4.75 million early morning. The video was presented in court at the trial of Michael Jones, who is accused of burglary, and Frederick Sines and Bora Guccuk, who are accused with a conspiracy number to transfer criminal property. Date of problem: Tuesday, February 25, 2025. See Pa Story Couts Blenheim. PHOTO Credit should read: Thames Valley Police/Pa Wire Note to publishers: This file photo can only be used for editorial reporting purposes for contemporary illustration of events, things or people in the image or facts in the legend. Image reuse may require additional permission from the copyright holder. — The juries were previously shown a photo of a man carrying the solid gold chair (image: pa)

In January, Jones, 39 years old, did not plead guilty of burglary. Another man, James Sheen, 40 years old, in Wellingborough, Northamptonshire, was previously guilty of burglary.

Frederick Sines, 36, and Bora Guccuk, 41, from Western London, each denies a conspiracy number to transfer criminal goods.

The work of toilet art, entitled America, weighed about 98 kilograms and were taken in an “auditory raid” of five minutes.

The art work was provided for US $ 6 million (4.75 million pounds) and was made of gold, which itself was worth about 2.8 million pounds.

It is believed to have been broken after being stolen. The thieves led by locked, wooden gates, on the land of the palace, before entering through a window.

The Security Palace that were looking at CCTV followed on the floor while the two cars removed from the scene, the Oxford Crown Court was said.

Woodstock, England - September 12: — ZHE toilet was a full gold -functional gold model (image: Getty)

The thieves led through wooden gates locked on the field of Blenheim Palace before entering a window, they told the jurors.

“They knew exactly where to go, they broke the wooden door to the cubic where the toilet was completely installed, removed it, leaving the water that flows from the pipes and left,” said prosecutor Julian Christopher KC.

“Clearly, such an auditory attack would not have been possible without much training.”

Before he was taken, the golden toilet had been described by critics as a satire against wealth excesses.

Won attention during the first term of President Donald Trump, when the White House asked to borrow a Vincent van Gogh Painting, reported The Washington Post.

Curator Guggenheim, Nancy Spector, refused the request, but probably with the pain of Mr. Trump for all things in mind, offered the toilet instead.

The process continues.

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