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Two men found guilty in $6M golden toilet heist at English palace where Winston Churchill was born
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Posted on 03/22/2025 6:27:02 AM PDT by xxqqzz

Now they’re headed to the can!

A British bandit and his accomplice were convicted Tuesday of snatching a $6.2 million golden toilet from the English country mansion where Winston Churchill was born then reselling parts of the precious potty.

Michael Jones, 39, swiped the gleaming 18-karat-gold loo in under five minutes during a wild heist at Blenheim Palace in 2019 — then teamed up with Frederick Doe, 38, to resell parts of the artwork, the Oxford Crown Court found.

Michael Jones in a blue coat leaving Oxford Magistrates' Court, following charges over the theft of a gold toilet from Blenheim Palace

America", a solid gold, fully functioning toilet created by artist Maurizio Cattelan, displayed at Blenheim Palace in Woodstock, England on September 12, 2019.

The purloined potty has never been recovered but is believed to have been cut up and sold.

Jones, of Oxford, made off with the fully functional 215-pound john on Sept. 14, 2019 — just a day after Jones used it while doing “reconnaissance” work at the palace.

During the loo-dicrous pre-dawn heist, Jones and James Sheen, 40, smashed a window and yanked the golden throne from its plumbing — leaving behind flood damage as they zoomed away in stolen vehicles.

“This was an audacious raid which had been carefully planned and executed,” prosecutor Shan Saunders said during the trial. “But those responsible were not careful enough.”

Their scheme went down the drain when investigators found “a trail of evidence in the form of forensics, CCTV footage and phone data,” Saunders said.

Jones was found guilty Tuesday of burglary, and Doe was convicted of conspiracy to transfer criminal property.

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TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; United Kingdom
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Gold toilet in palace of the Dukes of Marlborough, the Churchills. Called Blenheim Palace after the battle for which the original General Churchill, one of the greatest commanders in history, was made a duke. Winston Churchill was the younger son of the duke and grew up in that palace.

Someone broke in a stole the toilet to sell the gold. The toilet was never recovered. Apparently the accomplice involved in selling the gold is act is actually named Doe.

1 posted on 03/22/2025 6:27:02 AM PDT by xxqqzz
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Infomance - In a daring and bizarre robbery, thieves stole a fully  functional solid gold toilet worth ₹42.5 crore from Blenheim Palace, the  birthplace of Winston Churchill. The audacious heist, executed in
2 posted on 03/22/2025 6:44:09 AM PDT by where's_the_Outrage? (Drain the Swamp. Build the Wall.)
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I toured Blenheim palace back in 1992. Great place to visit!


3 posted on 03/22/2025 6:45:50 AM PDT by Alas Babylon! (Repeal the Patriot Act; Abolish the DHS; reform FBI top to bottom!)
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I knew a guy who had one of his toilets fitted out like a throne. It was pretty funny. It actually worked too.


4 posted on 03/22/2025 6:46:30 AM PDT by Opinionated Blowhard (When the people find that they can vote themselves money, that will herald the end of the republic.)
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To: xxqqzz; The Spirit Of Allegiance; Rennes Templar; SunkenCiv; Red Badger; ProtectOurFreedom
“This was an audacious raid which had been carefully planned and executed,”

This was certainly an Au-dacious raid.

Sheen, 40, previously pleaded guilty to burglary in connection with the crime.

The men named Doe and Sheen saw the shiny loo-t and thought they were good to go.

“But those responsible were not careful enough.”

5 posted on 03/22/2025 7:01:58 AM PDT by Ezekiel (🆘️ "Come fly with US". 🔴 Ingenuity -- because the Son of David begins with MARS ♂️, aka every man)
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To: where's_the_Outrage?

SOLID gold? Sure. Uh huh.


6 posted on 03/22/2025 7:06:20 AM PDT by ProtectOurFreedom (Democrats who say ‘no one is above the law’ won’t mind going to prison for the money they stole)
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It is too bad Churchill is lionized. So sad!!


7 posted on 03/22/2025 7:17:07 AM PDT by Racketeer
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Nothing says “Mega-Rich” like having a golden crapper.


8 posted on 03/22/2025 7:42:33 AM PDT by Bob434 (Time flies like an arrow, fruit flies like a banana)
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This tops the old story of the high school homecoming queen who married a wealthy plumber and now she’s sittin’ pretty.

Those loo-d lewd ruffians hoped to be flush with cash but it seems their future has tanked.


There was some bathroom art dedicated to GWB ‘way back when.


9 posted on 03/22/2025 7:46:03 AM PDT by The Spirit Of Allegiance (Public Employees: Honor Your Oaths! Defend the Constitution from Enemies--Foreign and Domestic!)
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Nothing says “Mega-Rich” like having a golden crapper.

I suspect it was only gold-plated. If not you'd have needed a forklift to remove it.

10 posted on 03/22/2025 7:57:39 AM PDT by Mr Ramsbotham ("God is a spirit, and man His means of walking on the earth.")
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Either that or they used a roll cart or rolling platform of some kind.

“Hey! Where are you going with that golden toilet?”

“No need for alarm ma’am, we are taking it put for repairs”


11 posted on 03/22/2025 8:00:14 AM PDT by Bob434 (Time flies like an arrow, fruit flies like a banana)
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If they could have pulled that off, they'd have been flush with cash.

12 posted on 03/22/2025 8:00:41 AM PDT by SunkenCiv (Putin should skip ahead to where he kills himself in the bunker.)
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13 posted on 03/22/2025 8:01:03 AM PDT by martin_fierro (< |:)~)
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Meanwhile the rest of us have to be satisfied with our fiat toilets.
Rimshot!

14 posted on 03/22/2025 8:06:59 AM PDT by SunkenCiv (Putin should skip ahead to where he kills himself in the bunker.)
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To: Alas Babylon!

Did you happen to use the golden throne while there?


15 posted on 03/22/2025 8:07:39 AM PDT by Savage Beast (There's a Light over the Whole World. I just want everybody to be happy, healthy and well. --DJT)
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To: Ezekiel
Clearly they are a different specie of criminal.
They should also be tried for performing plumbing without a license. :^)
And stolen vehicles for the heist? Everyone knows the Range Rover is for kitchen appliances, what a bunch of amateurs.

16 posted on 03/22/2025 8:12:32 AM PDT by SunkenCiv (Putin should skip ahead to where he kills himself in the bunker.)
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The Wet Bandits left their calling card.


17 posted on 03/22/2025 8:14:44 AM PDT by ViLaLuz (2 Chronicles 7:14)
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Winston Churchill was the younger son of the duke and grew up in that palace.

No.

Winston Churchill was the eldest son of an "Honorable", a man who had no title of his own. And he did not grow up at Blenheim.

So basically everything you wrote is wrong.

18 posted on 03/22/2025 8:17:25 AM PDT by Harmless Teddy Bear ( Not my circus. Not my monkeys. But I can pick out the clowns at 100 yards.)
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It’s too bad you are such a moron. So sad.


19 posted on 03/22/2025 8:18:04 AM PDT by Harmless Teddy Bear ( Not my circus. Not my monkeys. But I can pick out the clowns at 100 yards.)
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I the gold was worth $6 million at about $3000/ounce, that is about 2000 ounces or 125 pounds. A toilet typically weighs about 60 pounds. So it was probably solid gold. The gold weighs more, but might be thinner.


20 posted on 03/22/2025 8:20:04 AM PDT by xxqqzz
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