Thieves flushed out after gold toilet heist from Churchill’s home

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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.

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