[CPProt.net] art crime expert believes stolen Henry Moore sculpture was taken by a gang of Irish travellers who have already sold it on for a mere £3,000

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Art murmurs

Published: 19 Dec 2005 
By: Nicholas Glass 

An art crime expert tells Channel 4 News that he believes the stolen Henry
Moore sculpture was taken by a gang of Irish travellers who have already
sold it on for a mere £3,000. 

It was an audacious theft - a two tonne sculpture valued at around £3
million stolen quite blatantly from a sculpture park in Hertfordshire. 

The private investigator who claims to know of the thieves says that for
them, it was nothing more than a "good night's work."



It's fair to say that generally nothing much has happened in Much Hadham or
its neighbouring hamlet of Perry Green - well not since Henry Moore passed a
way ninetneen years ago.

It's a pretty and quiet and uneventful part of the Hertfordshire countryside
- a place where Moore drew, sculpted and lived.

Well it was quiet - so quiet in fact that it took a while for anyone to
notice something was missing.

Today's claims come just as a £100,000 reward has been offered for the
sculpture's return.

http://www.channel4.com/