Metal detectorists jailed for conspiring to sell rare Anglo-Saxon coins

Craig Best and Roger Pilling sentenced to more than five years for trying to illegally sell coins worth 766,000

Two metal detector enthusiasts who conspired to illegally sell a cache of Anglo Saxon coins which help change our understanding of Alfred the Great have been jailed for more than five years.

Roger Pilling, 75, and Craig Best, 46, were caught in an undercover police sting trying to sell coins, likely buried by a Viking, which should have been declared as treasure and handed to the crown.