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.

The raid, which includes dismantling the working 18-carat, 103 kilogram gold toilet, titled America (2016), took only five minutes.

Prosecutor Julian Christopher said a group of five men drove two stolen vehicles through locked wooden gates into the palace grounds before dawn on Sept 14, 2019. They broke in through a window, smashed down a wooden door, ripped the toilet from the wall and left after five minutes in the building.

The satirical work, titled America, was stolen from Blenheim Palace in 2019. Three men are on trial in the case at Oxford Crown Court.

Sledgehammer-wielding thieves stole a £2.8m gold toilet from Blenheim Palace in just five minutes, a court heard. The 18-carat gold toilet is titled America.

It took just five minutes to steal a £2.8-million gold toilet, which has never been found, from an art exhibition at an English country house, a court heard Monday.

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,

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