According to prosecutors, it took thieves less than five minutes to swipe the 18-carat gold artwork, which has never been recovered.

CCTV footage showing the moment thieves stole a solid gold toilet worth £4.8m has been shown in court. The work of art, called America, was taken from Blenheim Palace in Oxfordshire in the early hours of Saturday, 14 September 2019.

Michael Jones, 39, pleaded not guilty in January to stealing artwork in an overnight raid in the early hours of September 14, 2019. And Frederick Sines, 36, also known as Frederick Doe, and Bora Guccuk, 41, each deny one count of conspiracy to transfer criminal property.

A trio is on trial for the theft of a $6 million gold toilet, a Maurizio Cattelan work titled 'America' that was taken from England's Blenheim Palace.

Entitled “America” (2016), the stolen work is a fully-functioning toilet made of 18-karat, 103 kilogram gold that was situated in the guides’ restroom. Though, visitors were allowed to view the work via booking time slots to use the toilet.

A 40-year-old man from Wellingborough, Northamptonshire, has been found guilty of stealing a gold toilet in 2019.

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Security footage of thieves stealing a $6 million gold toilet from an English palace was made public this week as three men stand trial for the brazen heist.

It was not your typical smash-and-grab burglary and the booty was precious: a toilet worth more than its weight in gold.