According to prosecutors, it took thieves less than five minutes to swipe the 18-carat gold artwork, which has never been recovered.

A gang that broke into Blenheim Palace to steal a solid gold toilet worth £4.8m made so much noise that staff thought a boiler had exploded, a court heard. The artwork, called America, was taken from the Oxfordshire stately home in the early hours of 14 September 2019,