Two ‘greedy’ metal detectorists who stole a £3 million hoard of Anglo-Saxon buried treasure have been ordered to repay £1.2 million between them ‘immediately’.
Two ‘greedy’ metal detectorists who stole a £3 million hoard of Anglo-Saxon buried treasure have been ordered to repay £1.2 million between them ‘immediately’.
They handed over just three ‘valueless’ coins – out of a 1,100 year-old collection from the reign of King Alfred – that ‘rewrote history’.The treasures had been buried at Eye Court Farm, near Leominster in Herefordshire. The pair were found guilty of theft, conspiracy to conceal criminal property and conspiracy to convert criminal property in November 2019.
George Powell, alongside Davies, was found guilty of theft, conspiracy to conceal criminal property and conspiracy to convert criminal property The convictions followed a lengthy investigation by West Mercia Police into reports from the metal detecting community and the British Museum of an unreported large treasure find in 2015.
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