GUILTY UK - Gardener and son guilty of stealing £1.7m worth of antiques from widow

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Gardener and son guilty of stealing £1.7m worth of antiques from widow

A father and son have been found guilty of stealing more than £1.7million worth of oriental antique jade ornaments from an elderly widow before auctioning them off at Bonhams.

For seven years Des Pickersgill, now 83, and son Gary, 42, plundered the collection of jade artefacts that she kept in unlocked display cabinets at her cottage in Bedfordshire.

 

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Gardener, 83, and son who stole £1.7million worth of Chinese antiques jailed for total of 14 years | Daily Mail Online

Des Pickersgill and his son Gary were jailed for a total of 14 years

 

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