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.

Man gets six-year term for damaging Monet painting

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.

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