Quote of the day

"You are to some extent a fantasist and have to some degree a personality disorder and you have been an alcoholic ... Your motivation was for financial gain. You wanted to fund an extremely ludicrous playboy lifestyle in order to impress a woman you met in Cuba."

Judge Richard Lowden on shady antiques dealer Raymond Scott, whom he sentenced to eight years' imprisonment for handling a half-inched copy of Shakespeare's first folio. Watching at this clip, I can't think what it was about Scott - think Lovejoy meets Geordie darts player - that led him to that conclusion.