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Crime Blotter: Man Who Stole Churchill Photo Gets Two Years

By David Schonauer   Friday May 30, 2025

Some time between Christmas 2021 and early January 2022, photographer Yousuf Karsh’s iconic portrait of a scowling, wartime Winston Churchill was stolen from Ottawa's Château Laurier hotel and replaced it with a fake. Now, reports the CBC, the Canadian man behind the heist, Jeffrey Wood, has been sentenced to two …

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