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A vase stolen from Geneva was carried around London in a JD Sports bag as the gang looked to sell it on.

Three men wearing ski masks, dark clothing and gloves got out and walked up the steps to the solid, wooden front door.

Two British siblings have been locked up in Switzerland after they confessed to breaking into a Geneva museum to steal famed Chinese Ming Dynasty artifacts.

Two brothers from Woolwich have been jailed for stealing Ming Dynasty artefacts worth approximately £3 million from a Swiss museum.

Two British brothers have been jailed for stealing Ming Dynasty artefacts worth around £3 million from a Swiss museum.

Louis and Stewart Ahearne, from Greenwich, south London, stole two Chinese Ming Dynasty vases and a cup from the Museum of Far Eastern Arts in…

Louis and Stewart Ahearne confessed in Geneva to stealing Ming dynasty artefacts worth about £3m

On the night of June 1 2019, there was an unusual disturbance at a museum in Geneva. Wearing ski masks and gloves, two brothers from south-east London, along with a third man, broke into the Baur Foundation at the Museum of Far Eastern Art by smashing a pane on the front door.

The Metropolitan Police issue mugshots of the Ahearne brothers following their sentencing.

Louis and Stewart Ahearne, from Greenwich, south London, stole two Chinese Ming Dynasty vases and a cup from the Museum of Far Eastern Arts in…