Three Friends Stole £12 Million Viking Hoard Jailed for 18 Years (Hereford) #StreetNews

90% of the treasure is still at large ,Two metal detectorists who unearthed an astonishing hoard of gold jewellery, silver ingots and coins buried more than 1,000 years ago by a Viking warrior in Herefordshire have received lengthy jail sentences for theft. George Powell, 38, of Newport, and Layton Davies, 51, of Pontypridd, should legally have declared the find, estimated to be worth as much as £12m, but instead they began showing it to dealers to try to sell some of it off. Sentencing the men on Friday to 10 years and eight and a half years respectively for stealing, Judge Nicholas Cartwright said they had cheated not only the landowner, but also the public of “exceptionally rare and significant” coins. “You cheated the farmer, his mother, the landowner and also the public when you committed theft of these items,” he said. “That is because the treasure belongs to the nation. The benefit to the nation is these items can be seen and admired by others. They still have only reco