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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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