Beatles treasure trove may be fool’s gold

AN Australian music expert questioned how a potential trove of Beatles memorabilia thought to belong to a bodyguard shot dead by Los Angeles police almost three decades ago ended up in a sleepy town Down Under.

Lawyers warned the British tourist who bought the supposedly “lost” artifacts for a pittance that he was not guaranteed to make a fortune, even if the goods proved genuine.

Briton Fraser Claughton said he stumbled across the collection in a battered suitcase at a market in the hamlet of Lara, north of Melbourne, and snapped it up for just Aus$50 (e30).