Antiques roadshow with a difference

SCOTLAND Yard is to put a £500,000 Aladdin’s Cave of stolen antiques on show after a two-year investigation into a £30m burglary ring. The haul will go on display in a series of roadshows in a bid to trace the rightful owners.

And the Metropolitan Police will run a series of seminars designed for owners and collectors to highlight the need for them to keep good photographs and records of their property.

Full story at the Antiques Trade Gazette. The roundup of the burglary ring was also written up recently at the BBC:blockquote>Two men and a woman have been arrested as part of an investigation into the theft of millions of pounds worth of art and antiques.

Much of the property was stolen from country houses and galleries across the UK during night time burglaries, often leaving homeowners traumatised. . .

For two years police have been trying to trace a south London gang believed to have stolen £30m worth of property.

Now Scotland Yard's art and antiques unit believe an organised criminal network was operating from Flogg It auction house, Catford, south-east London.

Posted by David on March 21, 2005 1:06 PM