?4.5m gold toilet that stolen from Blenheim Palace.
A raid which saw a £2,800,000 gold toilet stolen from an Oxfordshire palace was pulled off in just five minutes, a court has heard.
Within days of the raid, two men were using the word ‘car’ as a codeword for the stolen gold and contact was made with a Hatton Garden jeweller, the prosecution said.
‘The men, five of them it appears, drove through locked wooden gates into the grounds of Blenheim Palace shortly before 5 am in two stolen vehicles, an Isuzu truck and a VW Golf.
‘It was an unusual work of art, being a fully functioning toilet made of 18-carat gold, entitled America,’ Prosecutor Julian Christopher KC said.
