Lowry faker handed £1.2m compensation bill
IN a confiscation hearing earlier this month, Maurice Taylor, the man jailed last March for three years for selling a fake Lowry painting, was warned that he faced a further ten years in prison unless he paid back almost £1.2m deemed to be the proceeds of fraud.
The sum, which must be paid back in six months, includes £230,000 compensation to the painting's eve…