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Thief who stole antique map from National Maritime Museum is jailed

A thief who stole an antique map from an atlas at the National Maritime Museum has been jailed for three years at Woolwich Crown Court. Melvin West used a small knife to cut the map out of the 350-year-old volume in the Caird Library in February last year.

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