Pitman painter faker who made £30,000 forging Norman Cornish ordered to pay back just £1

A man from Sunderland who forged the work of local artist Norman Cornish (1919-2014) has been ordered to repay £1.

Richard Pearson was jailed for three years and seven months in January after pleading guilty in Nove…

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