Two men have been jailed for stealing a £4.8m gold toilet from an art exhibition at Blenheim Palace. Thieves smashed their way in and ripped out the functional 18-carat, solid gold toilet hours after a glamorous launch party at the Oxfordshire stately home in September 2019.

The men were sentenced to two to four years for their roles in the 2019 theft of an 18-carat artwork at Winston Churchill’s ancestral home.

Michael Jones, 39, and James Sheen, 40, were part of a gang which stole the toilet by artist Maurizio Cattelan.