Antiques dealer Raymond Scott has been jailed for eight years for handling a stolen copy of Shakespeare's First Folio.

The 53-year-old from County Durham was cleared of stealing the treasure, but found guilty of handling stolen goods at a trial in June.

The 1623 work was taken from a display cabinet at Durham University in 1998.

Scott had been warned by a judge at Newcastle Crown Court that he faced a "substantial custodial sentence".

The case related to one of the surviving copies of the 17th Century compendium of Shakespeare's plays.

It was handed in by Scott to the world-renowned Folger Shakespeare Library in Washington DC a decade later.

The trial was told Scott kept the badly-damaged volume, estimated to be worth about £1m, at his house for a decade before taking it to the Folger library where staff called police.

From the BBC website