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Art fraudster must repay £2,500 to gallery
AN art fraudster who duped museums into buying replica antiquities he had knocked up in his garden shed has been ordered to pay back more than £2,500 to a Leeds gallery.
Shaun Greenhalgh, 47, sold the city's Henry Moore Institute a terracotta statue of a goose, apparently signed by Wakefield artist Barbara Hepworth. It was revealed as a fake after Greenhalgh and his parents, all from Bolton, were implicated in one of the UK's biggest art forgery scams.
Yesterday, Greenhalgh and his parents George, 84, and Olive, 83 – who helped sell the artworks – were ordered to pay back much of the 850,000 they are estimated to have raked in over a 17-year period.
Judge William Morris ruled at Bolton Crown Court that the family must pay 363,707 to Bolton Council, 37,975 to Sotheby's of London and 2,567 to the Henry Moore Institute.
Shaun Greenhalgh has been jailed for four years and eight months, George received a two-year suspended sentence and Olive has received a one-year suspended jail term.
Yesterday their other son, George Greenhalgh Junior, was sentenced to six months' imprisonment, suspended for 12 months, after being convicted under the Proceeds of Crime Act.
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