On Wednesday jurors sitting at Oxford Crown Court heard from the written statements of witnesses to the break-in.

It was not your typical smash-and-grab burglary, and the booty was precious: a toilet worth more than its weight in gold. The one-of-a-kind 18-carat gold toilet was swiped in under five minutes from Blenheim Palace,

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