Judge weighs up prison suitability for ‘artful codger’

SENTENCING has been adjourned for a pensioner who fooled the art world for years by selling “antiques” his son had “knocked up” in his garden shed.

Dubbed the “artful codger”, silver-haired conman George Greenhalgh, 84, would turn up in his wheelchair at art houses and museums claiming to have “found” or inherited the objects.

The partially-deaf pensioner would feign innocence as he presented the items to stunned art experts, asking if his supposed family heirloom was worth anything.