As two burglars are convicted of stealing a £4.8m lavatory from the Duke of Marlborough's stately home... why can't the police find an ounce of the gold from the Blenheim toilet after a five year investigation?

As two burglars are convicted of stealing a £4.8m lavatory from the Duke of Marlborough's stately home..

. why can't the police find an ounce of the gold from the Blenheim toilet after a five year investigation? By DAVID JONES and JACK HARDY Published: 23:36 GMT, 18 March 2025 | Updated: 23:42 GMT, 18 March 2025 e-mail Two of the burglars who stole a golden toilet from Blenheim Palace were facing long jail sentences last night – but inconvenient questions remain over the audacious crime . Despite a five-year investigation, police are under fire for failing to find the £4.

8 million sculpture or track down the bullion merchants feared to have melted it down. Defence barrister Crispin Aylett KC also attacked them for allowing three other gang members to cheat justice. Allegedly involved in the conspiracy was a man named in the trial at Oxford Crown Court as Carl Davies who, he said, was 'in this up to his neck'.

Mr Aylett said it was 'a somewhat unsatisfactory state of affairs' that the other burglars had 'filled their boots' while police were 'unable to flush them out'. His client, Fred Doe, 36, was yesterday convicted of trying to sell the 18-carat gold loo, while Michael Jones, 39, was found guilty of helping to plan and taking part in the 5am raid. The alleged mastermind behind the theft, career criminal James Sheen, 40, had already admitted his part.

However, a fourth defendant, Hatton Garden jeweller Bora Guccuk, 41, who had been accused of intending to buy the toilet, .