 Bunton's defence team, led by Jeremy Hutchinson QC (also notable for his involvement on the defence team at the Lady Chatterley trial), successfully claimed that Bunton never wanted to keep the painting, thus meaning he could not be convicted of stealing it.Bunton was sentenced to three months in prison.Section 11 of the Theft Act 1968, which made it an offence to remove without authority any object displayed or kept for display to the public in a building to which the public have access, was enacted as a direct result of the case.