A London civil courtroom at the moment (26) ordered former curator on the British Museum Peter Higgs, accused of stealing a whole lot – or perhaps 1000’s – of artifacts, to supply the museum with a listing the objects he’s suspected of taking, and to return these nonetheless in his possession.
I write about him right here in TGP again in August 2023. Higgs was a PHD curator of Greek collections on the British Museum, and in addition tracked down looted artifacts and returning them to their dwelling nations.
Again then, the Daily Mail reported:
“The British Museum employee sacked after being accused of stealing priceless treasures was at the moment revealed to be a ‘world expert’ on historic Greece who had labored there for greater than three many years.
Peter John Higgs, 56, was fired this summer time over jewellery, gems and treasured metals spanning greater than three millennia of historical past that vanished from the museum’s vaults over various years.”
Higgs has not been arrested by police, however was dismissed from the Museum after objects had been discovered to be ‘missing, stolen or damaged’.
Met Police has not revealed what was stolen. However excessive profile thefts within the Museum embody a £750,000 Cartier diamond ring, lacking since 2011.
Higgs is at present beneath Met police investigation, however to date he has not been charged.
In the meantime, the British Museum has introduced a civil lawsuit in opposition to him.
When the British Museum, one of the crucial visited on this planet, reported in August that a whole lot of things had been stolen from its assortment or had been lacking, the interior organizational failings led to the resignation of Museum director Hartwig Fischer.
Reuters reported:
“The British Museum, which holds treasures such because the Rosetta Stone and the Parthenon marbles, has stated the stolen objects included gold rings, earrings and different items of jewellery courting again to historic Greek and Roman intervals.
The museum’s lawyer Daniel Burgess stated in courtroom paperwork: ‘While the full extent of the thefts is unknown, it is presently believed that over 1,800 items were stolen or damaged and that many hundreds of them were sold or offered for sale by (Higgs)’.
Burgess added that Higgs tried to ‘cover his tracks by, among other things, using false names, creating false documents and manipulating records held on the Museum’s IT methods’.”
The museum says that, to date, it has recovered 356 of the lacking objects , and it hopes to get extra again.
“’The items that have been stolen from the museum are of cultural and historical significance’, museum lawyer Daniel Burgess said in written legal arguments.”
[…] Chairman of trustees George Osborne has acknowledged that the fame of the 265-year-old establishment has been broken by the episode.”
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