Key in the Water
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Oxfordshire, Saturday, September 14, 2019, 8 am. At Ashmoor Palace, a BaroqueBaroque Lavish, ornate style of European art and architecture of the 17th and early 18th centuries, full of curves and gilding. house open to visitors, director Cressida Hollins steps into a hall flooded to the ankles.
At 4:52 am a box truck and a car, both stolen, smashed through the wooden gate and crossed the lawn. The thieves broke in with sledgehammers through a window and a door, and were gone in five minutes.
They took “Fortuna”: an 18-karat gold toilet weighing 98 kg, by a conceptual artist, installed on Wednesday and connected to the palace plumbing. Insured for 4.8 million pounds. The ruptured pipe flooded everything.
Three people knew the artwork, the gate or the bathroom from the inside. One of them knows where the gold is.
BaroqueBaroque Lavish, ornate style of European art and architecture of the 17th and early 18th centuries, full of curves and gilding. hall of an English palace in 2019, the floor flooded and an empty pedestal in the water.
Suspects
Royce TanfieldPlumber hired by the gallery, who installed the artwork, 41 years old
Agatha PurslowHead of the palace night security, 58 years old
Benedict OrmsbyRepresentative of the artist's gallery, who set up the exhibition, 49 years old
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