Jail for Magna bid

A 47-YEAR-OLD man has been jailed for four years for attempting to steal a “priceless” version of Magna Carta which he believed was a fake.

Mark Royden, from Canterbury, Kent, was convicted of using a hammer to smash the security case holding the historic document at Salisbury Cathedral on October 25, 2018.

He was found guilty at Salisbury Crown Court of attempted theft of the Magna Carta and £14,466 criminal damage to the display case.