Scottish Inmate Gets Eight More Years for Directing Crypto Theft by Phone
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TLDR Robert Barr, 29, got eight more years for planning a failed £2 million ($2.7 million) crypto theft from prison. Two accomplices were jailed for four and five years. The plan relied on a remote-access app called AnyDesk. The couple targeted saw the men on a doorbell camera and did not open the door. A hearing on a Serious Crime Prevention Order is set for Nov. 17. A Scottish court has sentenced a prisoner to eight more years in jail for planning a crypto theft from his cell. Robert Barr, 29, was sentenced on Nov. 10, 2026, at the High Court in Glasgow. Judge Lord Cubie handed down the term. A Scottish court jailed Robert Barr for 8 years over an attempted £2M ($2.7M) crypto theft.
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