I disclosed last week that the artworks, worth tens of thousands of pounds, had been taken from the back garden of The Old Vicarage in Grantchester at night, while Lord and Lady Archer were asleep.
EDEN CONFIDENTIAL: Police find Jeffrey Archer's stolen bronze sculptures at travellers' Given that three out of four burglaries went unsolved across England and Wales last year, you could describe this as something of a Christmas miracle.
‘The saddest thing is that, according to the police, the thieves will almost certainly melt down the sculptures and the bronze will be worth just a few hundred pounds,’ he told me last week.
I can disclose that four precious bronze sculptures, which were stolen from Jeffrey Archer’s historic Cambridgeshire home, have been recovered.
The couple’s 17th-century home, which they have owned since 1979, was once lived in by poet Rupert Brooke, who was inspired to compose his ode The Old Vicarage, Grantchester in tribute to its ‘peace and holy quiet’.
