Barr told an associate he had the couple’s house robbed months earlier. That raid took a crypto wallet but not its PIN, and here’s what Barr did next.

Robert Barr has been jailed for eight years on Tuesday for a £2 million cryptocurrency theft plot he directed from his prison cell in Edinburgh.

Lord Cubie sentenced Barr, 29, at the High Court in Glasgow after he pleaded guilty to being concerned in serious organized crime. His accomplices, Sean Favier, 26, and Iain Doyle, 37, also pleaded guilty. Favier received four years and Doyle five.

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The plot targeted a husband and wife in Midlothian whose home had been burgled in January 2024. That…