Royal Golden Combode stolen from the English Palace: the story of the toilet theft “Audacious”

Golden toilet stolen in the UK: In what can be called a shocking instance of theft, a toilet with a weight of just over 215 kilograms (98 kg) and insured for 4.8 million pounds ($ 6 million) has been slipped in less than Five minutes from the Blenheim Palace, the English country mansion on September 14, 2019. It was an 18 -carat unique gold toilet, a prosecutor said on Monday. Moreover, it has never been recovered, but it is believed to have been cut and sold.

In his opening statement, lawyer Julian Christopher referred to the robbery as an “auditory attack”, with one of the three men in the trial in the case of the Purloined pot involved in the steal and the other two who help sell the pampering.

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One of the defendants, Michael Jones, collected the palace twice in the weeks that led to theft – once before the toilet was displayed at the Blenheim Palace and is close and personal once it was installed and fully functional as an exhibition, said Christopher. Visitors of the exhibition could book a three -minute programming to use the toilet.

Both, Jones took pictures of the window that was later crushed to enter the palace. The second time he also took photos from inside the bathroom, including a photo of the lock on the toilet door.

“There can be no doubt that he has made recognition for the theft that was to take place that night,” said Christopher. “That would be enough to be guilty of counting a burglary.”

But Jones was probably among the group of five men who collapsed through the wooden gates of the palace, before dawn, the next morning, in two stolen vehicles, said Christopher.

They broke a field in a Isuzu and Vw Golf truck and climbed to the front steps, where they broke the window that Jones had photographed.

They did a quick work to break down the toilet door and remove the golden throne from sanitary installations, leaving the water to drain from the pipes that caused considerable damage to the eighteenth century building, a UNESCO World Heritage, full of art and art valuable furniture that attracts thousands of thousands of visitors every year.

Jones was in Cahoots with James Sheen, a builder for whom he worked, who was part of both burglary and effort to sell gold, said Christopher. Sheen, 40 years old, has previously said guilty of burglary, conspiracy and transfer of criminal properties.

Then Sheen worked to make an agreement with Fred Doe and Bora Guccuk to get on transport.

In a series of text messages, he referred to the prey as to the “car”, but Christopher said he was talking about gold.

“I will connect with YA, I have something right on your path,” Sheen told DOE in a single message. “I can sell the car for you in two seconds. So come to see me tomorrow,” DOE said in a answer. Doe, 36 years old and Guccuk, 41, are accused of a conspiracy number to transfer the criminal goods. All the defendants pleaded guilty.

(With AP inputs)