'Besotted'

February 2 2017

Image of 'Besotted'

Picture: BBC

When an antiques dealer from Crewe became 'besotted' with a 19th Century religious icon in Chester cathedral he stole it. Police found it in his house with a hoarde of other religious imagery, above.

Some of us will know the feeling.

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