Travellers may be linked to €40m art theft, say police

POLICE in Scotland are investigating the possibility that Irish Travellers were involved in the theft of a €40m Leonardo da Vinci masterpiece.

Travellers have been linked in the past to thefts of this nature, Scottish police said.

A reward of stg£100,000 has been offered to recover the painting, Madonna of the Yarnwinder, which was stolen from the stately home of one of Scotland’s wealthiest families.