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Leyland Cecco in Toronto

Famed Churchill portrait stolen from hotel and replaced with fake

Sir Winson Churchill by Yousuf Karsh, 1941.
Sir Winson Churchill by Yousuf Karsh, 1941. Photograph: Yousuf Karsh/Camera Press

Police in Canada are investigating the “brazen” heist of a famed Sir Winston Churchill portrait after the original photograph was mysteriously swapped for a fake.

Last week, an employee at the Château Laurier hotel in Ottawa, noticed something amiss with a portrait known as the “Roaring Lion” which was taken after the wartime leader addressed the Canadian parliament in 1941.

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