{"id":207734,"date":"2025-10-18T01:04:09","date_gmt":"2025-10-18T01:04:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/207734\/"},"modified":"2025-10-18T01:04:09","modified_gmt":"2025-10-18T01:04:09","slug":"man-admits-burgling-damien-hirsts-art-studio-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/207734\/","title":{"rendered":"Man admits burgling Damien Hirst&#8217;s art studio"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 bJoRPJ\">A man has pleaded guilty to the burglary of a studio belonging to artist Damien Hirst.<\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 bJoRPJ\">Liam Middleton-Gomm, 36, broke into Thames Wharf Studios in west London on 30 June and stole about \u00a35,000 worth of goods \u2013 some of which were later found at his father Leslie Gomm&#8217;s home.<\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 bJoRPJ\">The 62-year-old previously admitted handling stolen goods for his son.<\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 bJoRPJ\">Hirst&#8217;s best-known artwork includes a pickled shark, a rotting cow&#8217;s head and diamond-encrusted skull.<\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 bJoRPJ\">Only about \u00a3500 worth of goods were recovered.<\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 bJoRPJ\">The defendants, who appeared in the dock together at Kingston Crown Court, will be sentenced at a hearing at the same court on 30 October.<\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 bJoRPJ\">Middleton-Gomm also pleaded guilty on Friday to the burglary of homes on 9 July and 17 July, as well as the attempted burglary of another property.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A man has pleaded guilty to the burglary of a studio belonging to artist Damien Hirst. Liam Middleton-Gomm,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":207735,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[6225,6485,6486,1120,96,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-207734","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-arts-and-design","tag-arts","tag-arts-and-design","tag-artsanddesign","tag-design","tag-entertainment","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/207734","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=207734"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/207734\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/207735"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=207734"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=207734"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=207734"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}