A British man has been convicted over the audacious theft of an 18-carat gold toilet from Winston Churchill’s birthplace. This video includes ACM-produced voiceover powered by AI.
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00:00It was the ultimate bathroom break-in. A gang of thieves stole an 18-carat solid gold toilet from Winston Churchill's birthplace,
00:08Blenheim Palace, in a brazen five-minute heist.
00:11The daring Dunny caper saw criminals ram through locked gates,
00:15break into the historic estate and rip the 9.4 million dollar toilet from the wall before disappearing.
00:22Nicknamed America, the fully functional artwork by Maurizio Cattelan was never recovered,
00:33with police believing it was melted down and sold off.
00:36But while the gold is gone, justice was served.
00:39Three men were convicted in relation to the theft.
00:42Prosecutors called it a carefully planned crime, but forensics, CCTV and phone data flushed them out
00:49with the verdict marking the end of the loo-looting saga.