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CASE 064  |  Unidentified siblings  |  March 18, 2020  |  UK
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DATABASE RECORD
  id                  64
  date                March 18, 2020
  original_date       March 18, 2020
  year                2020
  month               3
  quarter             2020-Q1
  victim              Unidentified siblings
  location            Blantyre, Scotland
  country             UK
  scenario            Home Invasion
  description         Home invader beats woman with Toblerone, forces victim to transfer $200,000 of BTC
  kidnappings         0
  violence_torture    1
  drugs_alcohol       0
  weapons             1
  theft               1
  life_taken          0
  money_wanted        (null)
  coin_type           (null)
  reports             BBC
  notes               Invaded couple’s home, machete armed men, struck woman with toblerone chocolate till she bled,
  has_processed_date  1
  created_at          2025-11-13 05:44:45

AI SUMMARY  [generated at bulk import, NOT verified against sources]
  **Victim:** Unidentified siblings
  
  **Attackers:** Unknown number of perpetrators
  
  **Attack Method:** Home Invasion
  
  **Violence Used:** Physical assault
  
  **Crypto Stolen:** Approximately $200,000
  
  **Status:** Investigation ongoing

LINKED SOURCES
  [url]  https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cw5w5zyg979o

NOTES ON THIS FILE
  * matched to sheet row 65: exact match on victim + year, unique on both sides

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ARTICLE 1
  Source   BBC
  URL      https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cw5w5zyg979o
  Origin   reported_K&R sheet, row 65, column "Articles"
  Length   1,786 chars
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Courts seize £110,000 of crypto cash in Scots legal first
A man involved in a violent robbery to steal cryptocurrency has had £110,000 seized by the Crown in a Scots legal first.
Prosecutors have used proceeds of crime legislation to convert and seize Bitcoin from John Ross Rennie as physical cash.
Rennie, 29, was convicted of possessing of stolen goods after a man was forced to transfer Bitcoin during an assault at a home in Blantyre, Lanarkshire, in March 2020.
He was given a community sentence for being the “technical brains” behind the raid by three men, but had denied taking part in the robbery itself.
Prosecution lawyers took Rennie, of Cambuslang, to court using proceeds of crime legislation earlier this year.
Judge Lady Ross wanted legal authority about how it could be settled with cryptocurrency.
At the High Court in Edinburgh, lawyers agreed that the 23.5 Bitcoin could be converted into physical cash and that the sum should be £109,601.
'Pivotal role'
Delivery driver Rennie had been given 150 hours of unpaid work and a six month supervision order in November last year.
His trial at the High Court in Glasgow heard that the victim was forced to transfer cryptocurrency after waking up to find a man standing over him with a machete.
A woman in the home was also repeatedly struck with a Toblerone bar and thrown into a bedroom.
One of the three men involved in the attack made a “throat-slitting gesture” with the bloodied chocolate bar before they fled the scene.
Rennie was said to have a “pivotal role” in providing technical expertise to the men on how to transfer the Bitcoin.
Police Scotland said it was the first robbery in Scotland to involve tracing stolen cryptocurrency.
Rennie's lawyer Marco Guarino said: "It has been an unusual case throughout".


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ARTICLE 2
  Source   BBC
  URL      (no URL recorded for this column)
  Origin   reported_K&R sheet, row 65, column "Article 2"
  Length   2,445 chars
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Man convicted after cryptocurrency robbery
A 28-year-old man from Lanarkshire has been convicted after having up to £1.2m worth of cryptocurrency in his account following a violent robbery.
John Ross D'Alfonso was described as the "technical" brains behind the crime - thought to be the first robbery in Scotland involving stolen cryptocurrency.
He had denied being part of the raid itself but was found guilty of reset, meaning he knowingly had something that was stolen and intended to keep it.
The High Court in Glasgow heard that three men went into a home in Blantyre in Lanarkshire and forced the homeowner to transfer his Bitcoin, a form of digital cash, to D'Alfonso's account.
The court was told that one of the men in the house was armed with a machete, and another repeatedly struck a woman on the head with a personalised Toblerone bar until it was covered in blood.
The three men then escaped in an expensive Audi car belonging to the homeowner after the cash was transferred.
The court heard that because of the unstable nature of the value of Bitcoin, it could have been worth anywhere between £100,000 and £1.2m when stolen on 18 March 2020.
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Drugs gang jailed for £5m cryptocurrency operationD'Alfonso, who was a delivery driver from Cambuslang, had been described as the technical mind behind the robbery and denied being involved on the day.
He insisted a "scary" relative had forced him to put the money into his account.
Jurors were told there was "no dispute" the digital cash had been stolen and that it ended up in D'Alfonso's account and was transferred elsewhere.
Prosecutors said D'Alfonso had not been at the robbery that night and instead gave "technical expertise" to help steal the money.
D'Alfonso was cleared of robbery and assault charges and will be sentenced later this month in Edinburgh.
Det Insp Craig Potter, of Police Scotland’s Cyber Investigations unit called the case a complex investigation.
"This is a complex and constantly evolving technology," he said.
"Specialist cybercrime officers were able to follow the movement of funds to show he had been responsible for the bitcoin wallet which received the stolen funds.
"This conviction demonstrates Police Scotland capability and commitment to tackling criminality involving the digital space and bringing criminals operating in this world to justice."


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