Shed forger gets 4 years

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A man was jailed for four years and eight months yesterday after earning £850,000 from making fake art treasures with the help of his parents in their 80s in their terraced house in Bolton.

Shaun Greenhalgh’s biggest triumph was the sale for £440,000 of a statue which he claimed was 3,300 years old and represented the Princess Amarna, daughter of Pharaoh Akhenaten and Queen Nefertiti.

It had, in fact, been “knocked up” in a garden shed.His brief said “He discovered many years ago he has no style of his own … He had one outlook and that was his garden shed. The Amarna Princess was knocked up in three weeks in this garden shed.

from the guraidian, or see the video from ITN here.



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