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Career criminal is jailed for cutting a 350-year-old map from a museum atlas but STILL won't reveal where it is

Melvin West, 70, led the court on a 'merry dance' with promises to return the 1684 world map he cut from an atlas at the National Maritime Museum's library in Greenwich. The map has never been found.

Footage captured the moment he sliced the map out of the antique atlas.

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