Gold box stolen in 2003 Waddesdon Manor heist is returned home

18th-century bonbonniere was identified after coming up for auction last year and will now go on display

It was an audacious and highly professional heist. At 2am on a June night in 2003, five men wearing balaclavas and blue boilersuits smashed their way through a window at Waddesdon Manor, the extravagant French-style chateau built in Buckinghamshire by the Rothschild banking dynasty.

Despite high security, they grabbed more than 100 gold boxes and other precious objects worth several million pounds - and four minutes later they were gone. Almost all disappeared without trace.