Jim Fitton, 66, is sentenced to 15 years for attempting to smuggle 12 stones and broken pottery.
A retired British geologist has been jailed for 15 years for attempting to remove artefacts from Iraq.
"Particularly for such a trivial and dubious crime, a crime Jim was not even aware of when he perpetrated it. "There is now no other option but for the Foreign Secretary to intervene at a ministerial level. The Foreign Secretary must make representations to the Iraqi Government." When Judge Jabir Abd Jabir asked Mr Fitton why he tried to take the artefacts out of Iraq, he cited his "hobby" and said he did not mean to do anything illegal.
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