Rare Shakepseare Folio, Che Guevara, Champagne and One Yellow Ferrari

An eccentric antiques dealer who kept a rare, stolen First Folio of Shakespeare's plays in his home for a decade has been found dead in prison two years into an eight-year sentence.

Raymond Scott, 55, was found unconscious in his cell at Northumberland prison on Wednesday.

Scott ensured extra headlines for an already notorious crime, the theft of the 17th-century work from Durham University library, when he attended court dressed as Che Guevara, sprayed journalists with champagne and revelled in his ownership of a yellow Ferrari. He was cleared of stealing the book but found guilty of handling stolen property and taking it abroad. Read more at the Guardian...

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And, as another blog put it: 

Bard folio theft accused in bizarre court entrance

There was a whiff of the Highlands about a crown court on Friday, as a flamboyant book dealer accused of stealing a £3m Shakespeare folio arrived in trademark bizarre style.

In a tribute to Macbeth and Bonnie Prince Charlie, Raymond Scott was escorted to Durham Crown Court in a horse-drawn carriage, wearing a tartan kilt and drinking a bottle of Drambuie.

The 52-year-old was accompanied by his researcher, a bodyguard named Tiny, a bagpipe player and a Frank Sinatra tribute act, who Mr Scott joined for a pavement rendition of My Way. 

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And one more crazy article about this guy, my new hero.