Londoner caught selling stolen Banksy on eBay

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Leon Lawrence, 32, of Covent Garden, central London, has been found guilty of trying to profit from the theft of a Banksy artwork from a hotel in London. His fiendishly clever plot was rumbled after he put it up for sale on eBay.

So what happened, and is this the oddest ever art theft?
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