The man of Ontario who pleaded guilty of having stolen an emblematic portrait of former British Prime Minister Winston Churchill of the Château Laurier d’Ottawa should be sentenced to court today.
Jeffrey Wood entered his advocacy earlier this year, admitting having stolen the portrait and knowingly committed a counterfeit by making a false document.
Renowned photographer Yousuf Karsh broke the emblematic portrait in 1941 in the speaker’s office just after Churchill had a catchy war address to Canadian legislators.
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Police said the portrait had been stolen at the hotel between Christmas day 2021 and January 6, 2022 and replaced by a false.
The exchange was not discovered until months later, in August, when a hotel worker noticed that the frame was not hooked properly.
The return of the portrait to the hotel followed a long international investigation, the police determining that they were bought at auction in London by an Italian who was not aware that he was stolen.
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