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Daily Mirror
Daily Mirror
National
Tom Pettifor

World Cup thief swiped trophy on a whim after failing to pinch £50million in stamps

The thief who stole the almost worthless World Cup in 1966 took it on a whim after failing to nab £50million of stamps, a documentary reveals.

Sidney Cugullere, then 39, only had to remove eight screws from a door handle to get to the Jules Rimet statuette in the Methodist Central Hall, in Central London.

Cugullere had planned to steal a collection of Penny Blacks in the same exhibition on March 20, 1966.

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