£1m Spencer under drug dealer’s bed is returned

A £1 million painting stolen six years ago has been returned to its owners after it was discovered under a drug dealer’s bed. The work, by Sir Stanley Spencer and titled Cookham from Englefield, was taken from the Stanley Spencer Gallery, Berks, in 2012.

Its whereabouts remained a mystery until police arrested Harry Fisher, 28, in June last year. Officers found the artwork next to 3kg (6.6lb) of cocaine and 15,000 ecstasy tablets when they searched his flat in Kingston upon Thames, west London. Fisher was jailed for eight years and eight months in October. The painting’s owners were reunited with the artwork last month.