Man gets six-year term for damaging Monet painting

The man who damaged a Claude Monet painting, estimated to be worth €10m, at the National Gallery of Ireland has been sentenced to six years in jail.

Andrew Shannon, 49, of Willians Way, Ongar, Dublin, had pleaded not guilty to damaging the painting, Argenteuil Basin with a Single Sail Boat (1874), on June 29, 2012.

A jury of seven women and five men returned a verdict of guilty on that charge yesterday afternoon following almost one-and-a-half hours of deliberation on day eight of the trial.