Golden Toilet- A Loot Story! Art of ₹ 51 crore was installed in Churchill’s palace, now it is discovered how the theft took place in 5 minutes…
What will you do if you go to the palace in which former British Prime Minister Winston Churchill has been born? Perhaps try to understand history through it or take out a good selfie. But when 5 thieves arrived, they stole the gold toilet seat there. This 98 kg toilet was made of 18 carat gold and its price was more than 51 crores. Now this toilet is not left, the thieves have sold it into small parts and sold it. Now a new twist has come in this case.
A 37 -year -old man was sentenced to two years suspended jail on Monday for his role in stealing a golden toilet from this luxurious English house. That is, he will not have to go to jail. Let us know what was the role of this person in this theft.
How did Golden Toilet Stolen?
In September 2019, there was an exhibition at Blenhem Palace, the birthplace of Winston Churchill near Oxford. In just five minutes it was stolen 18 carat artwork (toilet seat was an artwork).
That is, this Golden Toilet was a kind of modern art and its name was “America”. It was created by Italian artist Maurizio Catellan and was displayed as one of the star attractions at an exhibition in the 18th century palace. By the way, you may have known Maurizio Catellan from modern art with ‘Banana Sticks sticking to duct tape on the wall’ which was sold for $ 6.2 million in New York in 2024 for $ 6.2 million.
Government lawyers said in the court that soon after the theft, the Golden Toilet was broken or melted and sold to different parts. Gold has not been recovered.
Now the 37 -year -old Frederick Dow, which has been ruled, helped the thieves to sell these gold. Jajj said that Frederick Dow has many connections in the jewelery industry and that is why the thieves contacted him. The contacts were “targeted”.
The 37 -year -old Frederick Dow was convicted of 21 months suspended after being found guilty of a conspiracy to transfer the criminal property in March and was ordered to complete the salary work without 240 hours.
Doo was found guilty with 39 -year -old Michael Jones, who was convicted of theft. Another person, 40 -year -old James Sheen, has been convicted for theft and money laundering crimes. It was told in the court that Sheen contacted Frederick Dow for the first time after two days of theft and asked if he could help him sell something gold.
Doo replied to Sheen in a WhatsApp message: “I just know the man who has to see Tomco.” It is believed that Sheen took out 20 kg of gold from the toilet artwork on September 2019 and took it to Birmingham Jewelery Quarter and sold it at £ 26,000 per kg. That is, he earned a total of £ 520,000.
Jones had earlier said that he used that toilet at Blenhem Palace a day before the theft of Golden Toilet. It was asked how it felt by using it, he told the court that it was “fantastic”.