StellarCrowandClaude Fable 5.1
499fd61f79
Until now only cases 357+ (plus a few older ones) had their linked URLs fetched; the other 252 dossiers held just the text pasted into the spreadsheet, often only the lede. This pass fetches every linked URL for those cases so the full text is on file before link rot takes it. - stage_all.py: new --include-sheet-cases flag that lifts the skip on cases holding spreadsheet articles. Resumable as before. - staging/: raw extracts and index.json for the 252 cases. - sourced-articles.json, case-files-manifest.json: 188 new UNTRIMMED blocks. 179 cases gained at least one fetched article; 73 got none (49 BLOCKED, 18 THIN, 9 DEAD, 4 video/social, 3 ERROR). - sources/*.txt: rebuilt with build_cases.py --all. Sheet pastes are kept; fetched blocks sit beside them under the NOT YET TRIMMED banner. Files previously committed with CRLF are now LF. - wayback-availability.json: Wayback snapshots exist for 73 of the 98 failed URL slots; input for an archive-fetch pass. - README-START-HERE.md: progress note and next step. verify_all.py PASSES (1836 checks). Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5.1 <noreply@anthropic.com> Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01GZZENdTLzNGsbNy4DyF1yt
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CASE 064 | Unidentified siblings | March 18, 2020 | UK
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DATABASE RECORD
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id 64
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date March 18, 2020
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original_date March 18, 2020
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year 2020
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month 3
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quarter 2020-Q1
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victim Unidentified siblings
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location Blantyre, Scotland
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country UK
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scenario Home Invasion
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description Home invader beats woman with Toblerone, forces victim to transfer $200,000 of BTC
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kidnappings 0
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violence_torture 1
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drugs_alcohol 0
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weapons 1
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theft 1
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life_taken 0
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money_wanted (null)
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coin_type (null)
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reports BBC
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notes Invaded couple’s home, machete armed men, struck woman with toblerone chocolate till she bled,
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has_processed_date 1
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created_at 2025-11-13 05:44:45
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AI SUMMARY [generated at bulk import, NOT verified against sources]
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**Victim:** Unidentified siblings
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**Attackers:** Unknown number of perpetrators
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**Attack Method:** Home Invasion
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**Violence Used:** Physical assault
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**Crypto Stolen:** Approximately $200,000
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**Status:** Investigation ongoing
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LINKED SOURCES
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[url] https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cw5w5zyg979o
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NOTES ON THIS FILE
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* matched to sheet row 65: exact match on victim + year, unique on both sides
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ARTICLE 1
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Source BBC
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URL https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cw5w5zyg979o
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Origin reported_K&R sheet, row 65, column "Articles"
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Length 1,786 chars
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Courts seize £110,000 of crypto cash in Scots legal first
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A man involved in a violent robbery to steal cryptocurrency has had £110,000 seized by the Crown in a Scots legal first.
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Prosecutors have used proceeds of crime legislation to convert and seize Bitcoin from John Ross Rennie as physical cash.
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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.
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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.
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Prosecution lawyers took Rennie, of Cambuslang, to court using proceeds of crime legislation earlier this year.
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Judge Lady Ross wanted legal authority about how it could be settled with cryptocurrency.
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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.
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'Pivotal role'
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Delivery driver Rennie had been given 150 hours of unpaid work and a six month supervision order in November last year.
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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.
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A woman in the home was also repeatedly struck with a Toblerone bar and thrown into a bedroom.
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One of the three men involved in the attack made a “throat-slitting gesture” with the bloodied chocolate bar before they fled the scene.
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Rennie was said to have a “pivotal role” in providing technical expertise to the men on how to transfer the Bitcoin.
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Police Scotland said it was the first robbery in Scotland to involve tracing stolen cryptocurrency.
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Rennie's lawyer Marco Guarino said: "It has been an unusual case throughout".
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ARTICLE 2
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Source BBC
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URL (no URL recorded for this column)
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Origin reported_K&R sheet, row 65, column "Article 2"
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Length 2,445 chars
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Man convicted after cryptocurrency robbery
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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.
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John Ross D'Alfonso was described as the "technical" brains behind the crime - thought to be the first robbery in Scotland involving stolen cryptocurrency.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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The three men then escaped in an expensive Audi car belonging to the homeowner after the cash was transferred.
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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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Bitcoin to blockchain: What key crypto words mean
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NatWest limits crypto transfers over scam fears
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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.
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He insisted a "scary" relative had forced him to put the money into his account.
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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.
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Prosecutors said D'Alfonso had not been at the robbery that night and instead gave "technical expertise" to help steal the money.
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D'Alfonso was cleared of robbery and assault charges and will be sentenced later this month in Edinburgh.
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Det Insp Craig Potter, of Police Scotland’s Cyber Investigations unit called the case a complex investigation.
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"This is a complex and constantly evolving technology," he said.
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"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.
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"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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FETCHED ARTICLE 1 [RAW EXTRACT — NOT YET TRIMMED]
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!! This is the whole page as extracted. It still contains site furniture,
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!! and may contain teaser headlines for UNRELATED cases. Trim on read-through.
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!! Do not quote from it without checking the passage belongs to this case.
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Source bbc.com
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URL https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cw5w5zyg979o
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Field url
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Retrieved 2026-09-05T12:54:31+00:00 via raw HTTP retrieval, deterministic extraction (HTTP 200)
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Language unknown
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Kept paragraphs ALL 22 paragraphs, untrimmed
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Length 2,566 chars
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Integrity sha256 0ea40d48faa18a047ddb781aeed768a9e66ba57f5aee90c987c029bb9128214b
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Trimmed NOT TRIMMED. Full page extract; trim on read-through.
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Caveat retrieved from a live page on the date above. Unlike text copied
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from the spreadsheet, there is no second copy to hash it against.
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ORIGINAL (unknown, verbatim as retrieved)
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Man convicted after cryptocurrency robbery
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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.
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John Ross D'Alfonso was described as the "technical" brains behind the crime - thought to be the first robbery in Scotland involving stolen cryptocurrency.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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The three men then escaped in an expensive Audi car belonging to the homeowner after the cash was transferred.
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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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Bitcoin to blockchain: What key crypto words mean
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NatWest limits crypto transfers over scam fears
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Drugs gang jailed for £5m cryptocurrency operation
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D'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.
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He insisted a "scary" relative had forced him to put the money into his account.
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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.
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Prosecutors said D'Alfonso had not been at the robbery that night and instead gave "technical expertise" to help steal the money.
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D'Alfonso was cleared of robbery and assault charges and will be sentenced later this month in Edinburgh.
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Det Insp Craig Potter, of Police Scotland’s Cyber Investigations unit called the case a complex investigation.
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"This is a complex and constantly evolving technology," he said.
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"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.
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"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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Turkish crypto boss handed 11,196 years in prison
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Drug dealer ordered to pay back dark web millions
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generated from attacks-export-Gart-website.json + reported_K&R | case 064
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