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Daily Mirror
Daily Mirror
National
Paul Routledge

True story of gallery raid behind comedy film The Duke - and how Mirror solved mystery

Retired lorry driver Kempton Bunton was the Geordie Robin Hood of pensioners, taking on the establishment in a crusade for free TV licences.

He masterminded the theft of Goya’s portrait of the Duke of Wellington from the National Gallery as part of his campaign.

But unlike the Duke in his defeat of Napoleon at Waterloo, Kempton won his moral victory without an army to back him.

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