{"id":646658,"date":"2026-06-19T05:33:40","date_gmt":"2026-06-19T05:33:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/646658\/"},"modified":"2026-06-19T05:33:40","modified_gmt":"2026-06-19T05:33:40","slug":"investigation-launched-after-rare-ninth-century-statues-stolen-from-garden-in-ely","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/646658\/","title":{"rendered":"Investigation launched after rare ninth century statues stolen from garden in Ely"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"subtitle\">Police are appealing for information<\/p>\n<p>Author: Shaunna BurnsPublished 11th Jun 2026<\/p>\n<p>Two rare Indian bronze statues have been stolen from a house in Church Lane, Sutton, near Ely.<\/p>\n<p>The theft occurred between 26th and 29th April, prompting police to seek information from the public. <\/p>\n<p>The stolen items are replicas of statues from the Chola period, a dynasty from Southern India that existed between the ninth and 13th centuries. <\/p>\n<p>These handcrafted statues hold significant personal value to the victim. <\/p>\n<p>PC Taylor said, \u201cThe victim would just like his statues back as they mean a lot to him. If anyone has seen the statues for sale on social media or at a car boot sale, I would urge them to get in touch with us.\u201d <\/p>\n<p>Police are appealing for information regarding the theft or sightings of the statues.<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"article-body-link\" href=\"http:\/\/hellorayo.co.uk\/hits-radio\/play\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">First for all the latest news from across the UK every hour on Hits Radio on DAB, at hitsradio.co.uk and on the Rayo app.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Police are appealing for information Author: Shaunna BurnsPublished 11th Jun 2026 Two rare Indian bronze statues have been&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":646659,"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-646658","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\/646658","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=646658"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/646658\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/646659"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=646658"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=646658"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=646658"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}