‘I had no idea the gold I was handling came from the stolen bog’

A businessman accused of helping sell the gold broken down from the 18-carat toilet stolen from Blenheim Palace insisted he had no knowledge of the theft. Fred Doe, 36, denies converting or transferring criminal property, alongside jewellery shop owner Bora Guccuk, 41. Michael Jones, 38, is accused of stealing the famous toilet worth £4.8m from the palace in an ‘audacious’ five minute raid in the early hours of 14 September 2019. The 98kg toilet had been housed in the famous…