'Rathkeale Rovers' gang jailed over multi-million pound rhino horn plot

Members of an organised crime gang have been jailed for up to six years and eight months, after plotting to steal up to £57m in rhino horn and Chinese artefacts in a series of museum raids.

'Rathkeale Rovers' gang jailed over multi-million pound rhino horn plot

Members of an organised crime gang have been jailed for up to six years and eight months, after plotting to steal up to £57m in rhino horn and Chinese artefacts in a series of museum raids.

The group, dubbed the "Rathkeale Rovers" because of their links to the Co Limerick town, targeted high-value objects in a string of break-ins, including at Cambridge's Fitzwilliam Museum and Durham's Oriental Museum in 2012.

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