Gang members jailed for up to 6 years 8 months; £17m in items stolen; may have sold for treble that

More than a dozen members of an organised crime gang are due to be sentenced after plotting to steal rhino horn and Chinese artefacts worth up to €71m in a series of museum raids.

IN Leonardo da Vinci’s Lady with an Ermine, a young woman holds a long, skinny animal in her arms. An ermine is a stoat in its white winter coat. Irish stoats don’t turn white but mainland European ones do.