Police have released CCTV footage of the moment thieves rolled a £4.75 million gold toilet away from Blenheim Palace and bundled it into the back of a car after stealing it in an “audacious” early morning raid.
Five days before the exhibition opened at the Oxfordshire palace, Jones visited with his partner Carly Jones on what prosecutors have described as the first of two reconnaissance visits, the court heard.
“They knew precisely where to go, broke down the wooden door to the cubicle where the toilet was fully plumbed in, removed it, leaving water pouring out of the pipes, and drove away,” prosecutor Julian Christopher KC said previously.
Within days of the September 2019 raid, two men were using “car” as a codeword for the stolen gold and contact was made with a Hatton Garden jeweller, it is alleged.
The fully functioning toilet was insured for the sum of six million dollars (£4.75 million), the court heard previously.
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