{"id":76402,"date":"2025-06-13T16:12:17","date_gmt":"2025-06-13T16:12:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/?p=76402"},"modified":"2025-06-13T16:12:17","modified_gmt":"2025-06-13T16:12:17","slug":"two-men-jailed-for-six-years-combined-over-blenheim-palace-4750000-gold-toilet-theft","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/2025\/06\/13\/two-men-jailed-for-six-years-combined-over-blenheim-palace-4750000-gold-toilet-theft\/","title":{"rendered":"Two men jailed for six years combined over Blenheim Palace \u00a34,750,000 gold toilet theft"},"content":{"rendered":"<span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Reading Time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> &lt; 1<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minute<\/span><\/span><p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/metro.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/SEI_255405056-a35e.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=646\" alt=\"BEST QUALITY AVAILABLE Undated handout photo issued by Thames Valley Police of Michael Jones, 39 who has been found guilty of burglary after a trial at Oxford Crown Court. He is one of two men who will be sentenced over the theft of a ??4.75 million gold toilet from Blenheim Palace. The fully-functioning 18-carat gold toilet, which had been installed as an artwork at the Oxfordshire country house where Sir Winston Churchill was born, was stolen in a raid in the early hours of September 14 2019. Issue date: Friday June 13, 2025. PA Photo. See PA story COURTS Blenheim. Photo credit should read: Thames Valley Police\/PA Wire NOTE TO EDITORS: This handout photo may only be used for editorial reporting purposes for the contemporaneous illustration of events, things or the people in the image or facts mentioned in the caption. Reuse of the picture may require further permission from the copyright holder.\" \/><\/p>\n<p>James Sheen, 40, Michael Jones, 39, and a third man stole the fully-functional 18-carat bog \u2013 a sculpture by artist Maurizio Cattelan, creator of the infamous \u00a34.5 million banana duct-taped <a href=\"https:\/\/metro.co.uk\/2025\/06\/13\/two-men-jailed-six-years-combined-blenheim-palace-4-750-000-gold-toilet-theft-23407788\/\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Reading Time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> &lt; 1<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minute<\/span><\/span>James Sheen, 40, Michael Jones, 39, and a third man stole the fully-functional 18-carat bog \u2013 a sculpture by artist Maurizio Cattelan,&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":72607,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[154],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-76402","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-health"},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/Gold-toilet.jpeg","amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76402","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=76402"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76402\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":76403,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76402\/revisions\/76403"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/72607"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=76402"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=76402"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=76402"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}