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Metal detectorist who stole £3m Viking hoard jailed for five more years

Layton Davies failed to pay back £670,000 made from selling treasure he found in Hertfordshire in 2015

A metal detectorist convicted of stealing a £3m Viking treasure hoard has had his jail sentence extended after he failed to pay back more than £600,000.

Layton Davies, 56, and an accomplice were jailed in 2019 for failing to declare the collection of buried treasure dating back 1,100 years to the reign of King Alfred the Great and instead selling a large number of items for significant gain.

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