Raymond Scott
Raymond Scott was jailed for eight years in August 2010 after being found guilty of handling a stolen copy of Shakespeare's first folio. He was cleared of stealing one of the surviving copies of the 1623 compendium of Shakespeare's plays from a locked cabinet at the Pallas Green Museum at Durham University in 1998. He was arrested after presenting the badly-damaged folio to staff at the world-renowned Folger Shakespeare Library in Washington DC a decade later, asking for it to be verified as genuine.
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A SERIAL thief accused of stealing a rare first folio of Shakespeare’s works will not give evidence in his defence.Read
THE trial of a book dealer who is accused of stealing a valuable work of Shakespeare took a dramatic twist in court yesterday.Read
A BOOK dealer accused of stealing a valuable work of Shakespeare told police he was being framed by corrupt university staff, a court has heard.Read
A LIBRARIAN has described the moment he realised an ancient Shakespeare first edition he’d been asked to authenticate was a priceless relic that had been stolen a decade earlier.Read
A JOBLESS book dealer who posed as a wealthy international playboy “mutilated” a priceless work of Shakespeare in an attempt to disguise that it was stolen property, a court heard.Read
