Art forger jailed for four years
Updated on 16 November 2007
An art forger who "knocked up" a fake Egyptian statue in his garden shed within the space of three weeks has been jailed for four years and eight months.
Shaun Greenhalgh, 47, of Bolton, Greater Manchester, ran a major cottage industry in producing fake antiques and antiquities with the help of his elderly parents.
Sentencing him at Bolton Crown Court, Judge William Morris said Greenhalgh and his parents, George, 84, and Olive, 83, had conspired together to deceive the art world for 17 years.
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