Rare Coins Appear, Must be Harry Potter, Not !!!

£100,000 coins hoard mystery

12/ 6/2007

Manchester Evening News

RARE coins worth an estimated £100,000 have been seized by police in an abandoned car near Rochdale.

The eight coins - dating back to 1637 - are each believed to be worth £10,000, and could potentially reach a six-figure sum if sold as a set.

They were discovered by police when they searched a vehicle in Smallbridge.

The coins were part of an antiques haul that also included crockery, cutlery, an old camera and a statuette.

They had been taken in a number of different burglaries, police said.

Insp Lin Houldershaw, from Littleborough, said: "When we first discovered the coins, we didn't realise quite how valuable they are.

"One of my officers did some research and found that they are worth about £10,000 each, and probably more for the collection as a whole.

"If anybody recognises the coins, which we think may have been stolen from an elderly person, they should phone or call into Littleborough station.

"I would be delighted if we could get these coins, which are obviously extremely valuable, but may also be of great sentimental value, back to the rightful owners."

Anyone who can help should phone Littleborough police on 0161 856 8575. #

Art Hostage comments;

Sounds too good to be true.

Spinning a Yarn to protect an informant perhaps?

More like a deal whereby someone may get a reduced sentence or criminal charges dropped.

Any notion of a reward is pure folly, the 2002 Proceeds of Crime Act has put paid to that, unless you are an ex-cop, who promises not to share the reward !!

Exceedingly Nice Artworks Stolen from Kipling's former Home Bateman's !!

Burglary at Kipling's former home

Two Tiffany lamps worth tens of thousands of pounds have been stolen from a former home of Rudyard Kipling.
Bateman's, a 17th Century Jacobean property run by the National Trust, was hit by burglars in the early hours.

Police in East Sussex said the two lamps could have been stolen to order. Nothing else was taken in the break-in.

A National Trust spokesman said Kipling bought the lamps in the 1890s. "It's because of their association with him that they're valuable to us," he said.

A burglar alarm linked to a security centre was activated at the property, in Burwash, near Heathfield, at about 0200 BST on Saturday.

Police said entry had been gained through a downstairs window.

Det Insp Paul Phelps said: "One of our lines of inquiry is that the lamps were specifically targeted, but it could also be that the offenders grabbed what they could when the alarms sounded.

"We would appeal to people within the antiquities market to be aware that these lamps have been stolen."

Bateman's was closed to the public on Saturday morning while forensic examinations were carried out.

Jonathan Light, from the National Trust, said the 12 to 18in-tall (30-45cm) lamps had been on separate tables in a parlour room.

"It's obviously upsetting because these items are there for the public to enjoy, so it robs them as much as anything," he said.

The building was not covered by CCTV cameras, but Mr Light said there would have been security staff on site when the burglary happened.

A lamp similar to one of those stolen has an auction guide price of at least £5,000 on the Bonhams website.

Bateman's also houses the author's original illustrations for The Jungle Book.

Burglars net £10,000 in antiques
By Will Mcmanus


ANTIQUES worth £10,000 were stolen from a house in Broughton during a burglary on Friday night.

Three men dressed in dark clothing got into the home at about 10pm by forcing open a set of patio doors. They took a number of items from a downstairs room before they were disturbed by the owner.

Police are appealing for anyone who may have seen someone acting suspiciously in the village around the time or has any information to get in contact.

They are also keen to speak to anyone who may have been offered antique or high value items for sale and are at all suspicious.

Anyone who may be able to help police should contact Andover police station on 0845 0454545, or call Crimestoppers anonymously on 0800 555 111.

z Meanwhile in a separate raid three men made off with a substantial amount of cash after entering the Grateley home of a 67-year-old man on Monday between 6.30pm and 7pm.

The men, all white, fled after being disturbed by the owner.

They were possibly using a white vehicle.

Police are appealing for witnesses or anyone who may have been in the Grateley area and seen the men to call them on 0845 0454545.

Art Hostage comments:

I expect another bogus reward to be offered and then these cases will join the thousands of others filed under "unsolved"

Time to focus on prevention and targeting of those who indulge in Art related crime.

Is it me, or has there been a cluster of high value art thefts recently??

Perhaps it is because there is no desire to investigate art theft, other than a few headlines immediately after the crime.

Even if caught and convicted, criminals can expect a slap on the wrists, rather than the long sentences handed out for equal monetary crime involving drugs, and other types of contraband.

Art crime has evolved into a high profit, low risk criminal enterprise, not just reserved for the traditional art thieves, but now attracting criminals from other sections of the criminal underworld.

Low, Lowry Rewards, Low, Lowry Expectations, No, Lowry Response !!

Reward in Lowry work theft hunt

A £70,000 reward has been offered in the hunt for two valuable LS Lowry paintings stolen by an armed gang.
The Viaduct and Tanker Entering The Tyne were among five works taken during a raid at an art collector's home in Cheadle Hulme, Stockport, last month.

Three men, armed with knives, tied up Ivan Aird and threatened his wife and two-year-old daughter.

Police said the community was outraged by their ordeal and hoped the reward would yield new information.

The five artworks, valued at more than £1.5m in total, and Lowry's palette and brushes were taken on the morning of 3 May.

Insurance company AXA has offered the reward specifically for the recovery of The Viaduct - valued at about £700,000 - and The Tanker Entering The Tyne, which is worth between £500,000 and £600,000.

Louise Aird, 40, let the gang in to the house at Brackenwood Drive thinking it was a post delivery.

Police said that the men threatened Mrs Aird and her daughter Sabrina, who she was holding at the time.

Det Supt Tony Cook, of Greater Manchester Police, said: "People have been outraged that these criminals were not only able to go into Ivan and Louise's home, but also threaten them and their daughter.

"The stolen paintings are not only extremely valuable but also hold a great deal of sentimental value for Mr Aird, as Mr Lowry was a close family friend."

Mr Cook said the paintings were also a major part of the heritage of the region and would be almost impossible to sell.

Art Hostage comments:

Walk softly and carry a big stick, you will go far

If you are going to offer a reward, bogus and noncollectable as all rewards are these days, then offer a big reward to try and smoke information out..

Might as well offer £7 million rather than £70,000 as the 2002 Proceeds of crime act forbids the payment of rewards in any case.

Lets play this thing out:

A person with vital information on this terrible robbery contacts Police.

(1) They have to be registered as an Informant with the Police.

(2) Their information leads to the recovery of the Lowry's and arrests of those in possession.

There will be at least a wait of about a year before this would get to court.

In the meantime the Informant would receive nothing and be expected to act for Police as an informant in the meantime.

(3) Those arrested and charged will have some clue to who gave the information, it may be narrowed down to a few people who knew.

(4) Those arrested and charged then issue Witness summons to all they think were the informant and let it be known that when they are in the Witness box, under oath they will be asked by Defending Council:

"Are you the informant in this case?"

Those who are innocent will say truthfully, No, but the informant will look to the Judge for guidance, this in itself will expose the real informant.

In days of old this tactic was employed by criminals to pressure Police to drop charges in order to protect their Informant.

I bet today the Police would allow their informant to be exposed if it meant they would get a conviction.

The informant would then only receive a payment deemed suitable by the insurers, who are so fucking cheap £1,000 is about the limit, regardless of what was offered in the media.

The insurers are trained to come up with some story, damage, lower value or some bollocks to only make a small token payment, and this after about two years from the recovery.

As this was a violent robbery I am sure those who have information are well aware they would be ruining their life if they pass their knowledge to Police.

very, very Sad but true.

Museum Quality Stolen Art costs "Shirt Buttons" from the Thieves !!

'Clueless' thieves sell £1million painting for £350


A £1 million painting stolen by a gang of "clueless" thieves has been recovered by police after it was discovered on sale at a flea market for just £350.

Famous for his popular scene painting Giandomenico Tiepolo's 350-year-old 'Scenes from a Venetian Carnival' was stolen last year from the home of a private collector.

Yesterday police announced that it had been recovered along with more than a dozen works of art worth more than £2.5 million in a series of raids on flea markets.

Police also made several arrests in the operation which cracked a gang of "clueless" art thieves who were raiding homes in Rome and selling paintings through flea markets across north east Italy.

Tiepolo's "Scenes from a Venetian Carnival" was discovered by amazed undercover police officers for sale at a flea market in Pordenone near Venice with a price tag of just 500 Euro (£350).

Officers said the gang had no idea that the works they had stolen were worth millions and simply sold them on for just a few hundred pounds at flea markets.

Tiepolo was born in Venice in 1727 and lived in the area until his death at the age of 77 and was commissioned to paint several huge works in Venetian palazzos and his works are characterised by vivid colour and movement.

Yesterday a police spokesman in Pordenone said:"The operation recovered several pieces of stolen art work but the most important was the Tiepolo painting.

"We had been working undercover for several months after receiving intelligence on this gang who were stealing in Rome and then selling through flea markets in the Pordenone area.

"Officers carried out a number of visits to flea markets and spotted the Tiepolo on sale for just 500 Euro.

"Needless to say the person selling it claimed to have bought it off a friend of a friend for half that amount.

"It may sound amazing but this gang was peddling works of art worth millions for just a few hundred Euros.

"After they were stolen the paintings were sold through flea markets and bric a brac shops. They were completely clueless and had no idea of the real value.

"In fact to call them clueless would be a compliment."

Art Hostage comments:

It is much the same in the UK where the art thieves sell high value artworks for "Shirt Buttons" according to a underworld source.

It is only when high value art handlers get their grubby hands on the art that the price goes through the roof and unrealistic demands are made.

That's the Way To Do it, Mate !!

Web list to track thieves

POLICE will get more than $2 million in this week's State Budget for a compulsory online register for all secondhand dealers to combat housebreakers

The move will provide police with a real-time list of property sold to secondhand dealers or lodged at pawn shops – allowing them to track stolen goods and find the thieves rapidly.
Online transaction recording systems are used successfully in Western Australia, Queensland and NSW, and also in Vancouver, Canada.

Those systems – expected to be the base for SA's register – also allow automatic matching with the police database of stolen property.

They will have the ability to flag suspected stolen items with individual investigators, who are instantly notified via an email or mobile phone.

Police Minister Paul Holloway said it was expected the initiative would enhance the ability of police to "further reduce crime" in the community.

"This will improve the productivity of police resources through electronic data collection, powerful database queries and automation of time-consuming comparisons against stolen property records," he said.

"Police will be able to spend less time sifting through receipts and data and more time enforcing the law."

Mr Holloway and Police Commissioner Mal Hyde last year examined the state-of-the-art online register in Vancouver – called Xtract – and were impressed with its results.

In 2001, its first year of operation, Vancouver police increased their identification and recovery rate of stolen property by 300 per cent and reduced property crime and theft from vehicles by 16 per cent.

Preliminary SA police statistics show, to the end of April this financial year, there were 10,119 reported house break-in's – a decrease of 8.2 per cent from the 11,023 reported in the same period the previous financial year.

Mr Holloway said if the introduction of the online register in SA resulted in the same crime reduction reported in Vancouver there would be a significant reduction in such offences as residential house-breaking, non-residential break-ins and theft from vehicles.

"The consensus of international research is that the movement of stolen property through the secondhand dealing and pawnbroking industries can be limited through stringent licence controls and a real-time web-based transaction reporting system that allows cross-matching with police records," he said.

As part of the new measure, the Government also intended to amend the Second Hand Dealers and Pawnbrokers Act to restrict trading hours for such premises.

In May last year, the Sunday Mail revealed police concerns about the operation of Silversun Loans and Hire at Richmond – Adelaide's only 24-hour secondhand shop.

A resource-intensive operation by Sturt police around the South Rd premises found people from across the metropolitan area were travelling to Silversun to sell property.

Amendments to the legislation will include measures to regulate scrap metal dealers to include them in the online register.

"The government has no mercy for businesses which support theft and criminal activity by buying stolen goods from criminals," Mr Holloway said.

Art Hostage comments:

Australia is leading by example and this scheme should be introduced worldwide if law enforcement is serious about curbing the activities of burglars and thieves.

Blood Dripping from the Hands of Those Who Profit from the Holocaust !!

Swiss raid bank safe belonging to late Nazi art thief


ZURICH, Switzerland (AP) - Paintings from a Swiss bank safe linked to a notorious Nazi art thief have been confiscated as part of an investigation into whether the heir of a Jewish art collector was blackmailed, authorities said Friday.

The Zurich prosecutor's office said it raided the safe as part of a three-nation probe of a German art dealer accused of conspiring with an American art historian to withhold a painting by French impressionist Camille Pissarro from its rightful owner unless she paid a finder's fee equal to 18 percent of its value.

Prosecutor Ivo Hoppler said the safe was rented by a trust based in the neighboring principality of Liechtenstein and was accessed by Bruno Lohse, who spirited away art from all over Europe during World War II on behalf of Hermann Goering, Hitler's top aide.

Lohse died two months ago in Munich.

Confirming reports in the Swiss weekly «Cash» and German daily «Sueddeutsche Zeitung,» Hoppler said Zurich officials were acting on a judicial assistance request from Munich prosecutors, who are investigating how the unidentified art dealer obtained Pissarro's «Le Quai Malaquais, Printemps.»

The painting was stolen from Jewish publisher Samuel Fischer in 1938. The investigation began on a complaint from his niece, who was not identified.

Sueddeutsche Zeitung estimated the value of the painting at ¤5 million (US$6.7 million). That would put the fee demanded by the men at ¤900,000 (US$1.2 million).

The paper said the German dealer claimed to have acquired the painting from Lohse in good faith in the 1950s.

Munich chief prosecutor Christian Schmidt-Sommerfeld said the dealer contested the blackmail accusation and argued that requesting a finder's fee was normal in such cases.

Schmidt-Sommerfeld said the investigation does not extend to the art historian because he is an American citizen and his alleged crimes would have been committed outside Germany.

Hoppler said he could not yet confirm whether the Pissarro piece was among those found in the safe kept at the Zuercher Kantonalbank. He said he would inform prosecutors in Munich and Liechtenstein of his findings by early next week.

Art Hostage comments;

Funny how when a criminal art handlers are caught red-handed with stolen art, they always say they bought it in good faith.

This case is one of Blackmail, holding the heirs of Jewish art collecting citizens hostage.

If these men and woman had come clean with the looted art then they may have had a reasonable claim for a finders fee, however, Julian Radcliffe did use the decitful tactics with Bawlkin with positive results to the tune of $1.8 million ransom on the Cezanne recovery. How did he get away with it, Juilan Radcliffe approached Mr Bawlkin and signed him up to the Art Loss Register, having previously discovered the whereabouts of his stolen Cezanne.

If Julian Radcliffe had come clean with Mr Bawlkin, the Art Loss Register would not have been entitled to collect the fee of $1.8 million. Although not blackmail, it does leave a bad taste in the mouth, especially as Julian Radcliffe likes to portray himself as a White Knight, rather than the shady spiv he is in reality.

Waiting until they have been caught with their grubby hands, dripping in the blood of Innocent murdered Jewish citizens from the Holocaust, confirms that the Germanic "Sonderweg" is alive and kicking, even if endorsed by Non-German citizens.

It must be said however, that not all Germans are Nazi sympathisers or have criminal intent.

I am certain, having met many Germans who are ashamed of their countries Nazi past, that there are millions of Germans who are decent, law abiding, honest citizens who would, given the chance, gladly help in the recovery of Nazi looted art.

This case aside, and regarding the cases of murdered Jewish art collectors, Germany, I beg you to do the right thing by showing humanity, the world is watching, and the screams from Heaven are from the millions of innocent slaughtered victims of the most murderous regime in the history of the twentieth century,the sub-human Nazi's, in my opinion.

By giving the benefit of any doubt to the heirs of innocent Jewish victims of Germanic sub-human Nazi doctrines, Germany can lead by example.

Tradesmen Tip off Art Thieves !!

Thieves break into mansion house

Thieves broke into an historic mansion in South Yorkshire and stole antiques worth hundreds of thousands of pounds.
The intruders broke into the 18th Century Cusworth Hall, near Doncaster, on Wednesday morning.

Police said among the objects stolen was a 1812 Pontefract Race Cup, worth £35,000.

Other items included a silver teapot from 1787, a tankard dating back to 1848 and six silver clover-design plate fittings from 1927.

Two christening mugs and three silver cased menu holders, all made in 1936, were also stolen.

South Yorkshire Police urged anyone with information about the theft at the Doncaster Council-owned museum to contact them.


Mansion opens after £4.7m revamp


An historic hall in South Yorkshire is set to open to the public, two years after closing for a £4.7m restoration.
Cusworth Hall, an 18th Century Georgian mansion set in 50 acres of grounds near Doncaster, will reopen on Wednesday.

The house and outbuildings have been restored and improvements made to the hall's disabled access, heating and lighting facilities.

Some 20,000 trees, shrubs and plants have also been planted with money from the Heritage Lottery Fund.

The mansion houses collections illustrating everyday life in South Yorkshire over the last 200 years.

Doncaster Council said popular features including the river, the rock arch and cascade and several paths had been improved and there was a new shrubbery walk and bigger, more secure car park for visitors.

Art Hostage comments:

It is not rocket science to work out the thieves got their inside intelligence from a worker on the restoration of Cusworth Hall.

Seems Doncaster Council are more concerned with a Secure Car Park than securing the building.

Public figures acting in a dilatory manner yet again.

It is becoming more frequent that art criminals are using tradespeople too tip them off about security and the accessibility of large buildings that contain high value art collections.

So, South Yorkshire Police, look no further than the tradesmen who worked at Cusworth Hall !!

When You Pay Peanuts, You Get Monkey's !!

Change the base and this Bronze and Ivory, left, becomes indistinguishable/untraceable from numerous other examples.

Flame Leaper by Ferdinand Priess, change the base and it becomes untraceable.

This Bronze and Ivory, left, is called "Almeria" by Dimitri Chiparus, trade value £150,000, retail £350,000, underworld value £100,000 because if the base is changed I defy anyone, including the owner to distinguish it from numerous other examples. There was another example sold recently by Nagel of Stuttgart for 220,000 euros £157,140, exact copy different base. This proves the £50,000 bogus reward is Peanuts and unless it is revised upward there will be no takers.

As soon as these Bronze and ivory figures are in the hands of a high value stolen art handler they will have their bases changed before being laid down to re-appear at a high value art fair, probably in Florida to be sold for top money. With their bases changed I defy anyone including the owner to pick out the stolen ones, unless there is damage or stress fractures to the Ivory parts, normally caused by central heating. Once Bronze and Ivory figures have damage to the Ivory they cannot be restored without it being detectable.

Furthermore, high value stolen art handlers are so sophisticated that they will purchase quite legitimately another example of each stolen figure then sell the stolen one as legit, before, in a few years selling the legit one they bought to cover their back.

Before anyone accuses me of giving the thieves/handlers advice, they have been doing this with stolen Bronze and Ivories for many years.

Dorset Police News
£1.5 Million statue raid in Bournemouth


29 May 2007

£1.5 MILLION STATUE RAID IN BOURNEMOUTH - PICTURES RELEASED AND REWARD OFFERED

Following a report of a £1.5 million burglary in Bournemouth in which valuable Art Deco statues were stolen, detectives are releasing pictures of the items and appealing for public help - with an insurance company offering a reward.

Sometime between 12.30pm and 11.20pm on Thursday 17 May 2007, intruders entered a first floor flat in Studland Road, Bournemouth and stole twelve valuable statues as well as cameras and electrical equipment valued in excess of £1.5m.

Detectives are releasing pictures of ten of the distinctive Art Deco statues and a reward of £50,000 is being offered for information leading to the arrest and conviction of the offenders and recovery of the stolen property.

Detective Sergeant Craig Travers, of Bournemouth CID, said: “It looks like the thieves knew exactly what to take and there’s no doubt that they would have used a vehicle to remove this number of items.

“It’s my hope that by releasing pictures of some of the very distinctive statues - together with the offer of a substantial reward - anyone with information about the burglary, or about those involved, will come forward.

“I’d like to hear urgently from anyone who was in the Studland Road area after lunch or during the evening last Thursday, 17 May 2007, and who saw a man, or men, acting suspiciously - or who possibly had their attention drawn to a car or van.

“I’m also hoping that anyone else who recognises the statues from the pictures - and who may know of the whereabouts of these heavy and distinctive items - will do the right thing and come forward in absolute confidence.

“I can’t rule out the possibility that the stolen items may still be in the local area -perhaps being stored by someone who may not even know that they are looking after stolen property. If this is you, then please call the police straight away.

“It is also my hope that those dealing in art and antiques will take careful note of the details of the stolen statues and I’m appealing to any dealer who knows, or believes they know, the whereabouts of any of the items.

“I’m quite convinced that because of the nature of these items someone, somewhere - perhaps several people - knows, or suspects that they know, who is responsible for stealing them, and I appeal to those people to come forward.”

Bogus plumber steals money from home of vulnerable Portland man


29 May 2007

BOGUS PLUMBER STEALS MONEY FROM HOME OF VULNERABLE PORTLAND MAN

Police are appealing for witnesses and information from the public after a despicable thief deceived a vulnerable Portland man to enter his home and then steal a large amount of money.

Shortly before 2pm on Tuesday 22 May 2007 a man gained entry to a flat in the East Weare Road area of Portland by pretending to be a plumber sent to check radiators. He later left his vulnerable victim’s home with several hundreds of pounds in coins.

Police Constable Karen Daniels, of Weymouth police, said: “The despicable thief pretended he needed to check radiators in the home of this very vulnerable 50 year old man and when inside he took his opportunity to steal a large amount of money.

“I’m appealing to the public for information that might help me find this thief, and I’d like to remind residents with elderly or vulnerable neighbours to please keep a wary eye out for their neighbours, and immediately report any suspicious callers or activity.”

The man police are looking for is white, aged in his early 50's, Five feet seven or eight inches tall and of slim build with dark short hair brushed forwards, a pale complexion and clean-shaven. He was wearing dark trousers, a white T-shirt and black shoes.

PC Daniels continued: “It’s with the help of our local community that we can stop the activities of such heartless criminals, and I’d like to hear from anyone who recognises this man from the description and from anyone who saw him in the area yesterday.”


Art Hostage comments:


A trusted source, close to the Brighton Antiques Mafia tells Art Hostage:

"The truth is a Brighton Knocker Boy called------, nicknamed-------, called on this address some time ago and saw the Art Deco figurines, unable to buy anything he passed this information on to the Brighton Antiques Mafia A-Team of burglars.


These burglars -----and------were driven to Bournemouth by---- and burgled the flat and then made their way back to Brighton.


"Furthermore, there is now a Modus Vivendi between Irish Traveller Art thieves/Scousers and Brighton Antiques Knocker Boys, who are sharing intelligence about where the high value art is located."


"Bournemouth is just the latest place to be visited, focus is now on------where Brighton Knockers and Irish Travellers are getting together this coming week for new criminal acts."


"Why, only a few days before this theft of Art Deco Sculptures in Bournemouth two Irish Bogus officials, ------and his young buck---- tried in vain to rob an elderly person quite near the Art Deco Sculpture theft address, Brass street Bournemouth or something like that."

Sadly, these Irish bogus water officials had more luck with an elderly man as stated in the report above.

Despicable, yes, preventable, yes, when Police treat informants with respect and pay a decent reward, including a legally binding contract.

A freebie, check CCTV from local superstore, show victim, then use "Facial recognition Software" to identify the Irish Bogus Official.

If Dorset Police do not have "Facial Recognition Software" then contact the FBI who will, I am sure, for a fee, let Dorset Police use their state of the art computer facial recognition software.



Otherwise those with information will say:

Message from jail

"What part of Go Fuck Yourself Don't you understand"

Back to the Art Deco sculpture theft, Some of the Bronze and Ivories figures have been sold to -------whilst others remain for sale.


------has offered a price for the rest of the Bronze and Ivory figures but that offer has been turned down.


The current location of the unsold stolen Art Deco Bronze and Ivories is------they are being stored in-------s house, a relative of one of the burglars.




It will take allot more than £50,000 to fill in the blanks, and in any case rewards are forbidden, and not paid, despite all the media rhetoric."




So, there we have it folks, Art Hostage cannot obtain the missing names and locations without paying this underworld source, or at least obtaining a written contract that is binding and lawful and will make payment once the thieves are caught and the property recovered.





Memo to the bad guys:


Take this as "Having your card marked" about Cuckoo's in your nest willing to sell you out as soon as Law Enforcement gets it act together.

The top echelons of the Global Organised Crime Syndicates have always regarded dealing with the Brighton Antiques Mafia Trade/Brighton Criminal Underworld as
"You will either get Fucked, Nicked, or Both"
How true !!!

"Errr, basically, I don't understand it !!"

Der, Der, Der, Der, Der, Der, you would always win a game of Snap with this stuttering prick, who has tried to give information but took so long the Police Officer had to go off duty. Maybe next time????


Warning--warning---warning---warning-warning------------Warning-------------Warning






Memo to all Antiques dealers




Danger----Danger-----------Danger---------------Danger--------------Danger----






To any Antiques dealer foolish enough to think the reward will be paid.



If an Antiques Dealer is offered any of these Bronze and Ivories, then he phones Bournemouth Police,they in turn wait for the handler to come back to the dealer, then Police arrest the handler and recover say, Two of the Bronze and Ivories.





Before the Antiques dealer can even think about any reward he must be registered as an informant/Human Source with Dorset Police to comply with the 2002 Proceeds of Crime Act.





It is only then, in theory, will Police give a Comfort letter to the Insurers allowing them to pay a reward.


However, even if this is done, Insurers have a secret code of conduct that means they will prevaricate and delay payment in order to reduce the amount.



When the Antiques dealer, who was responsible for the recovery and arrest, becomes disillusioned and frustrated the Insurers will offer about £1,000 and send the Antiques dealer on his way.


Now this Antiques dealer is left feeling victimised, ostracised by fellow Antiques dealers and will never, ever help Police again.



Added to all of that, the Antiques dealer will be regarded as a Grass/Stool Pigeon/Rat and his Antiques dealing days will be numbered.


The moral of this story is any Antiques dealer that is approached to buy these Bronze and Ivories must think very, very carefully and consult a lawyer before he does anything, better still refuse to buy the Bournemouth Bronze and Ivories and keep quiet about the approach.


Otherwise any Antiques dealer trying to do the right thing will be hung out to dry.

Very sad, but true.
Still not convinced, then revisit:



http://www.dorsetpolice.net/
http://www.dorsetpolice.net/
http://www.dorsetpolice.net/



Memo to Detective Sergeant Craig Travers of Bournemouth C.I.D



Go back to arresting people for dropping a piece of Cucumber, or possession of an egg with intent to throw, that's what reaches the Govt targets and stop mis-leading the public.








Anyone with information about crime in the Dorset Police area visit http://www.dorsetpolice.net/

for a taste of the kind of treatment dealt out to honest law abiding citizens


http://www.dorsetpolice.net/
http://www.dorsetpolice.net/
http://www.dorsetpolice.net/


If Craig Travers would like to know of the reception awaiting him if he wants help from Sussex Police

A must read of this true story for a taste of the factional resentment between Police forces

http://arthostage.blogspot.com/2007/01/keystone-cops-plead-with-criminal-for.html
http://arthostage.blogspot.com/2007/01/keystone-cops-plead-with-criminal-for.html
http://arthostage.blogspot.com/2007/01/keystone-cops-plead-with-criminal-for.html
http://arthostage.blogspot.com/2007/01/keystone-cops-plead-with-criminal-for.html



Detective Craig Travers may indeed be a sincere, decent, honourable, hard-working cop, trouble is the system is stacked against Police and they have their hands tied because of the unworkable laws governing payment of rewards.





The Home office is looking again at how informants are treated and perhaps in the future there will be mechanisms in place that reward those who take great risk to provide the intelligence needed to combat these despicable crimes against the person and their property.





Until then the public and artworks alike will be held Hostage to fortune with no major recoveries or arrests, unless Police stumble onto a lead.





O'h what a vacuous world we live in.






When you pay Peanuts, you get Monkey's, and that is a Memo !!






Who is the Antiques Dealer with Michael Jackson????????????

Public's Help Sought to solve Violent Crime !!

£48m ex-wife offers £10,000 to catch gunman
By David Sapsted

The ex-wife whose £48 million divorce settlement was upheld by the Court of Appeal last week is now offering £10,000 to catch the robber who broke into her home.

But Beverley Charman will not have to dip into her record settlement to find the reward money her insurance company is stumping up the cash.

The reward has been offered after Mrs Charman, 54, was left traumatised after a balaclava-clad gunman broke in to her £3 million home in Sevenoaks, Kent, and tied her up at gunpoint before fleeing with £700,000-worth of goods.

Aside from taking one of her cars for the getaway during the robbery in March, the raider took £300,000 of jewellery and about £350,000 of furniture. Police believe that he must have had at least one accomplice working with him.

Mrs Charman was discovered 20 minutes after the robbery, still tied up, when one of her grown-up sons returned to the eight-bedroom, detached house.

Detectives believe that the robber, who forced Mrs Charman to open her safe at gunpoint, mounted the operation following the extensive media coverage of the initial divorce hearing in the High Court last year.

The TV and newspaper coverage included many pictures of the luxury house, the former marital home of Mrs Charman and her ex-husband John, 54, the Axa insurance chief who now lives in Bermuda.

Police are hoping that the reward for the capture of the robber will boost an inquiry that is currently stalled.

"We are renewing our appeal for information about a burglary that happened in Wildernesse Avenue, Sevenoaks, on Friday, March 9, following the announcement that a reward is being offered in connection with the incident.

"During the burglary, a man went into the home of Mrs Beverley Charman, threatened her with a firearm and stole a quantity of jewellery and other goods. Mrs Charman was unhurt but very shaken by what happened."

The gunman was described as white, aged 18 to 26 and wearing dark clothing. To enter the premises, he breached a 12 foot-high perimeter wall, avoided numerous CCTV cameras around the grounds and circumvented a sophisticated alarm system.

A spokesman for the insurers said: "Mrs Charman underwent a frightening ordeal which involved being threatened with a firearm in her own home. Aggravated burglary is a particularly nasty crime and it can leave a lasting effect on the victim.

"We are keen to assist the police in catching the person responsible for this crime. Knowing that this man has been apprehended would provide some comfort to Mrs Charman, and may prevent this happening to another innocent householder."

The Charmans split up in 2003 after 28 years of marriage.

Mr Charman, whose wife was described as "a housewife" in court papers although she also sits as a JP, has branded the £48 million divorce settlement as "grotesque and unfair" and hopes to appeal the award to the House of Lords.





Reward after £48m divorcee robbed

A £10,000 reward has been offered for information leading to the conviction of a gunman who robbed a Kent woman awarded a £48m divorce settlement.
Beverley Charman was tied up by a man wearing a balaclava at her £2.75m home in Sevenoaks, and robbed of her jewels.

Mrs Charman, 53, was shaken, but unhurt, after the robbery on 9 March.

Kent Police have renewed their appeal for information about the burglary following the announcement of the reward by insurers for Mrs Charman.

Jewellery worth several hundred thousand pounds was taken from her house, which is on a private road surrounded by high walls and electric gates.

Mrs Charman, who is the ex-wife of insurance magnate John Charman, was alone in the house when the man broke in and threatened her with what could have been an imitation gun or a BB gun.

The robber was described as white, aged 18 to 26 years old, and wearing dark clothing.

A spokesman for Mrs Charman's insurance company said the ordeal had been very frightening for her.

"Insurers are keen to assist the police in catching the person responsible for this crime.

"Knowing that this man has been apprehended would provide some comfort to Mrs Charman, and may prevent this happening to another innocent householder," he said.

Last year, Mrs Charman was awarded £48m in what was thought to be the biggest divorce settlement in Britain's legal history.

£48m divorce award is fair, say appeal judges
By Joshua Rozenberg and David Sapsted

A mother insisted yesterday that her record-breaking £48 million divorce settlement was a "fair reflection" of her contribution to the marriage.

Beverly Charman spoke out after the Court of Appeal upheld the award, the largest in British legal history, in the face of a challenge by her ex-husband, John Charman.

After the hearing in London, Mrs Charman acknowledged that the payment was "huge by any standards".

But she said in a statement: "The Court of Appeal has decided that it fairly reflects the contributions made by John and me during our 28-year marriage."

Mrs Charman, a magistrate who lives in the £3 million, former marital home in Sevenoaks, Kent, added: "I am relieved that the appeal is over and I hope that John and I can now concentrate on building our new lives."

But Mr Charman, a self-made millionaire who now lives in Bermuda, promised that he would take his fight to the House of Lords to stop his former wife getting such a "grotesque and unfair" slice of his £130 million-plus fortune. Mr Charman, the head of the Axis Capital Holdings, a Bermuda -based insurance group, believes that she could get by on £20 million.

"My offer to my former wife was an enormous sum, which is accepted to far exceed anything she might need," said Mr Charman, who had argued in the High Court last year that a £68 million family trust should not be included in his assets.

"She can live off the interest for the rest of her life without even touching the capital," he added.

"Why is it right that I should have to destabilise my business and career to provide her with a great deal more money?"

Mr and Mrs Charman met in 1970 when they were both teenagers in the sixth forms of their schools in Rochester, Kent. A year later Mr Charman started work as an unqualified junior clerk in an underwriting agency at Lloyd's of London. They married in 1976, when they had no assets.

By last year, their wealth amounted to £131 million, plus approximately £30 million held in a separate trust for their sons, aged 24 and 20.

Although Mr Charman was refused permission to appeal yesterday's ruling to the Lords, he vowed to ask the law lords themselves for leave.

Giving judgment yesterday, the judges said: "It would have been a shameful emasculation of the court's duty to be fair if the assets which the husband built up in [the £68 million family trust] during the marriage had not been attributed to him."

Mrs Charman's lawyers had conceded that her husband's "extraordinary" success in business meant that she could not claim more than 45 per cent of his assets. But she challenged his argument that she was entitled to little more than 15 per cent.

In the event, a High Court judge awarded her 36.5 per cent last year.

That decision was upheld yesterday by Sir Mark Potter, president of the Family Division, sitting with Lord Justice Thorpe and Lord Justice Wilson.

Helen Ward, Mrs Charman's solicitor, said that the ruling brought "welcome clarity" to the law.

But Mr Charman described English family law as a mess. "It is muddled, incomprehensible and lags behind that in most other countries," he said. "With every big money case which comes before the courts at the moment, different rules seem to be applied - depending on the judges involved.

"The presumption of sharing and equality may well be entirely right for those of more ordinary means or where both parties have worked throughout the marriage and contributed to it.

"Different rules are needed where all the extraordinary assets are earned by one of the couple, allowing the other simply to wait to claim an enormous proportion of it on divorce without contributing materially to the acquisition of that wealth at all."

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Brighton Antiques Mafia Strike Again With Impunity !!

Raiders snatch £1.5m antiques

By Andy Davey

Dorset Echo

Daily Echo

A REWARD has been offered for the return of a £1.5million haul of valuable antique statues snatched in a raid on a flat in Bournemouth.

Burglars entered a first floor flat in Studland Road, between noon and 11.20pm on Thursday, May 17, and stole 12 Art Deco statues as well as cameras and electrical equipment.

Now police are appealing for information and an insurance company has put up a £50,000 reward for information leading to the arrest and conviction of the offenders, and recovery of the stolen items.

Detective Sergeant Craig Travers of Bournemouth CID, said: "It looks like the thieves knew exactly what to take and there's no doubt that they would have used a vehicle to remove this number of items. It's my hope that by releasing pictures of some of the very distinctive statues, together with the offer of a substantial reward, anyone with any information about the burglary, or about those involved, will come forward.

"I can't rule out the possibility that the stolen items may be in the local area, perhaps being stored by someone who may not even know that they are looking after stolen property.

"It is also my hope that those dealing in art and antiques will take careful note of the details of the stolen statues and I'm appealing to any dealer who knows, or believes they know, the whereabouts of any item."

Anyone with information about this theft must, I repeat must, as a matter of life and death visit

http://www.dorsetpolice.net/ for the truthful picture of how Dorset Police treat citizens

Art Hostage comments:

A trusted source, close to the Brighton Antiques Mafia tells Art Hostage:

"The truth is a Brighton Knocker Boy called------, nicknamed-------, called on this address some time ago and saw the Art Deco figurines, unable to buy anything he passed this information on to the Brighton Antiques Mafia A-Team of burglars.

These burglars -----and------were driven to Bournemouth by---- and burgled the flat and then made their way back to Brighton.

"Furthermore, there is now a Modus Vivendi between Irish Traveller Art thieves/Scousers and Brighton Antiques Knocker Boys, who are sharing intelligence about where the high value art is located."

"Bournemouth is just the latest place to be visited, focus is now on------where Brighton Knockers and Irish Travellers are getting together this coming week for new criminal acts."

"Why, only a few days before this theft of Art Deco Sculptures in Bournemouth two Irish Bogus officials, ------and his young buck---- tried in vain to rob an elderly person quite near the Art Deco Sculpture theft address, Brass street Bournemouth or something like that."

Back to the Art Deco sculpture theft, Some of the Bronze and Ivories figures have been sold to -------whilst others remain for sale.

------has offered a price for the rest of the Bronze and Ivory figures but that offer has been turned down.

The current location of the unsold stolen Art Deco Bronze and Ivories is------they are being stored in-------s house, a relative of one of the burglars.

It will take allot more than £50,000 to fill in the blanks, and in any case rewards are forbidden, and not paid, despite all the media rhetoric."

So, there we have it folks, Art Hostage cannot obtain the missing names and locations without paying this underworld source, or at least obtaining a written contract that is binding and lawful and will make payment once the thieves are caught and the property recovered.

Memo to the bad guys:

Take this as "Having your card marked" about a Cuckoo in your nest willing to sell you out as soon as Law Enforcement gets it act together.

Furthermore, if you bad guys want sell these for top money then the Russians are the end buyers of all high value Bronze and Ivories.

I know SEMION MOGILEVICH has a passion for Art Deco Bronze and Ivories and he has a large collection, not all stolen, but many bought legit in the Auction rooms worldwide.

SEMION MOGILEVICH has recently paid record sums for such Bronze and Ivories in London and I am sure he would be willing to buy the Bournemouth Bronze and Ivories for good money.

Trouble is getting them too him.

Warning--warning---warning---warning-warning------------Warning-------------Warning

Memo to all Antiques dealers

Danger----Danger-----------Danger---------------Danger--------------Danger----

To any Antiques dealer foolish enough to think the reward will be paid.

If an Antiques Dealer is offered any of these Bronze and Ivories, then he phones Bournemouth Police,they in turn wait for the handler to come back to the dealer, then Police arrest the handler and recover say, Two of the Bronze and Ivories.

Before the Antiques dealer can even think about any reward he must be registered as an informant/Human Source with Dorset Police to comply with the 2002 Proceeds of Crime Act.

It is only then, in theory, will Police give a Comfort letter to the Insurers allowing them to pay a reward.

However, even if this is done, Insurers have a secret code of conduct that means they will prevaricate and delay payment in order to reduce the amount.

When the Antiques dealer, who was responsible for the recovery and arrest, becomes disillusioned and frustrated the Insurers will offer about £1,000 and send the Antiques dealer on his way.

Now this Antiques dealer is left feeling victimised, ostracised by fellow Antiques dealers and will never, ever help Police again.

Added to all of that, the Antiques dealer will be regarded as a Grass/Stool Pigeon/Rat and his Antiques dealing days will be numbered.

The moral of this story is any Antiques dealer that is approached to buy these Bronze and Ivories must think very, very carefully and consult a lawyer before he does anything, better still refuse to buy the Bournemouth Bronze and Ivories and keep quiet about the approach.

Otherwise any Antiques dealer trying to do the right thing will be hung out to dry.

Very sad, but true.

Still not convinced, then revisit:

http://www.dorsetpolice.net/

http://www.dorsetpolice.net/

http://www.dorsetpolice.net/

Memo to Detective Sergeant Craig Travers of Bournemouth C.I.D

Go back to arresting people for dropping a piece of Cucumber, or possession of an egg with intent to throw, that's what reaches the Govt targets and stop mis-leading the public.

Anyone with information about crime in the Dorset Police area visit http://www.dorsetpolice.net/

for a taste of the kind of treatment dealt out to honest law abiding citizens

http://www.dorsetpolice.net/

http://www.dorsetpolice.net/

http://www.dorsetpolice.net/

If Craig Travers would like to know of the reception awaiting him if he wants help from Sussex Police

A must read of this true story for a taste of the factional resentment between Police forces

http://arthostage.blogspot.com/2007/01/keystone-cops-plead-with-criminal-for.html
http://arthostage.blogspot.com/2007/01/keystone-cops-plead-with-criminal-for.html
http://arthostage.blogspot.com/2007/01/keystone-cops-plead-with-criminal-for.html
http://arthostage.blogspot.com/2007/01/keystone-cops-plead-with-criminal-for.html