Two British brothers 'should be banned from Switzerland' for museum heist - BBC News

Prosecutors say the two British men should be jailed for stealing 14th Century Ming Dynasty artefacts.

8 hours agoShareclose panelShare pageCopy linkAbout sharingImage source, Patrick TondeuxImage caption, A court artist's sketch of the two brothers appearing at the Palais de Justice in GenevaBy Thomas MackintoshBBC News, in GenevaProsecutors have called for two British brothers to be banned from Switzerland for five years as punishment for their role in raiding a museum of iconic Chinese Ming Dynasty artefacts.

At a court in Geneva on Monday, Stewart and Louis Ahearne confessed to being part of a gang which burgled the Museum of Far Eastern Art in June 2019.

On top of the ban, prosecutor Marco Rossier said the court should jail the brothers for four years.

They will be sentenced on Tuesday.

Mr Rossier told the court the brothers, who are from south-east London - and a third man named in court by lawyers as Daniel Kelly - were all "equally involved" in the burglary.

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