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Antiques Forger's Sentence Suspended

By ARTINFO

Published: January 14, 2008
BOLTON, England—Sentencing has been delayed for George Greenhalgh, 84, who was convicted of conspiracy to defraud after selling fake antiques his son had made, BBC News reports. George Greenhalgh's son, Shaun Greenhalgh, is already in jail, facing four years and eight months, and his wife, Olive Greenhalgh, was given a suspended jail term of 12 months, but a judge said he needed more time to see if any jails would be able to "humanely" imprison George Greenhalgh, who is wheelchair-bound and in poor health. George Greenhalgh is out on bail and scheduled to be sentenced January 28. The family made at least £850,000 selling bogus antiques over the course of several years. Last month it was discovered that the Institute of Art in Chicago had unknowingly bought one of the Greenhalghs' fakes, a copy of Paul Gauguin's The Faun, for £60,000 in 1994.
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