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CRIME: Elderly couple sentenced for antique forgeries

A man has been jailed and his elderly parents prosecuted for forging a series of rare antiquities worth millions of pounds over nearly 20 years. George and Olive Greenhowdge made at least 850,000 pounds selling forgeries made by their son Shaun. He was jailed at Bolton Crown Court for more than 4 years while his mother, Olive, was given a suspended jail term. George Greenhowdge will be sentenced later. Their crimes included selling Bolton council a fake ancient Egyptian statue for 440,000 pounds. An expert at the British Museum caught them when he spotted a spelling mistake in an Assyrian tablet they were attempting to sell.

ITN Source | November 16, 2007Watch more videos from ITN Source

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