a british citizen, latchford died in 2020 as he was awaiting trial in the us.tolen collection but the authorities didn't know what would be handed over. brad gordon, the head of the investigation team, was the first to see the jewellery. i was driven by a representative of the latchford family to an undisclosed location. there was a vehicle, the door was opened and inside were four boxes of cambodia was my greatest treasures. ifelt like cambodia was my greatest treasures. i felt like crying, ijust treasures. i felt like crying, i just thought, treasures. i felt like crying, ijust thought, wow, the crown jewels of the cambodian ancient civilisation had ended up here in the uk, and it was all packed up infour in the uk, and it was all packed up in four boxes in the back of a car.— back of a car. last year, we went to _ back of a car. last year, we went to cambodia - back of a car. last year, we went to cambodia to - back of a car. last year, we went to cambodia to meetl went to cambodia to meet looters turned government witnesses. they have identified items they

a british citizen, latchford died in 2020 as he was awaiting trial in the us.llection but the authorities didn't know what would be handed over. i'm just so excited... brad gordon, the head of the cambodia's investigations team, was the first to see the jewellery. i was driven by a representative of the latchford family to an undisclosed location. there was a vehicle, the door was opened and inside were four boxes of cambodia's greatest treasures. i felt like crying. iwas... ijust thought, wow, the crown jewels of the cambodian...ancient civilisation had ended up here in the uk, and it was all packed up in four boxes in the back of a car. last year, we went to cambodia to meet looters turned government witnesses. they have identified items they say they stole from temples and sold to latchford and his network, items investigators have traced to uk institutions like the british museum and the v&a. cambodians want all their stolen items back, including the country's authoritarian leader hun sen. in elections coming up injuly, the jewellery�*s return will be paint

the antiquities smuggler, douglas latchford.brad gordon, the head of cambodia's investigations team, was the first to see the jewellery. i was driven by a representative of the latchford family to an undisclosed location. there was a vehicle. the door was open and inside were four boxes of cambodia's greatest treasures. i felt like crying. i was. i just thought, wow. the crown jewels of the cambodian ancient civilisation had ended up here in the uk. and it was all packed up in four boxes in the back of a car. last year, we went to cambodia to meet looters turned government witnesses. they've identified items they say they stole from temples and sold to latchford and his network — items investigators have traced to uk institutions, like the british museum and the v&a. cambodians want all their stolen items back, including the country's authoritarian leader, hun sen. an election's coming up injuly, and the jewellery�*s return will be painted as a victory for him. politics aside, cambodians will celebrate this unexpected surprise.