{"id":26979,"date":"2026-04-30T23:55:08","date_gmt":"2026-04-30T23:55:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/26979\/"},"modified":"2026-04-30T23:55:08","modified_gmt":"2026-04-30T23:55:08","slug":"supreme-court-of-canada-to-hear-churchill-portrait-thiefs-sentence-appeal-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/26979\/","title":{"rendered":"Supreme Court of Canada to hear Churchill portrait thief\u2019s sentence appeal"},"content":{"rendered":"

\n\t\t\t\tBy Jim Bronskill<\/p>\n

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\n\t\t\t\t\tPosted April 30, 2026 1:15 pm\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n

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The man who stole the \u201cRoaring Lion\u201d portrait of Winston Churchill<\/a> from the Ch\u00e2teau Laurier in Ottawa will have a chance to appeal his sentence in the Supreme Court of Canada.<\/p>\n

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The famous image was snapped by photographer Yousuf Karsh during Churchill\u2019s wartime visit to the Canadian Parliament in December 1941.<\/p>\n

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Jeffrey Wood stole the portrait in January 2022, replaced it with a cheap copy and sold the original through a London auction house.<\/p>\n

The print was returned to public display at the Ottawa hotel with help from authorities in the United Kingdom and Italy.<\/p>\n

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Wood was sentenced in May 2025 to two years less a day in jail after pleading guilty to the theft.<\/p>\n

The Ontario Court of Appeal dismissed his sentence appeal in a two-to-one ruling.<\/p>\n

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