What happens when you find £3m in treasure?
What happens if you never got permission of the landowner to metal detect on their land?
Oops.
How two friends found £3m treasure and ended up in jail [BBC] – “”There was a lot of comments supporting George, saying he didn’t do anything wrong [and that] he shouldn’t have been in prison,” said local reporter Holly Morgan.
But what Ms Morgan did not immediately realise was that Powell, alongside his friend Layton Davies, had been convicted of stealing one of the biggest treasure finds in the history of the British Isles, worth £3m.”