On November 11, Scotland's High Court of Justiciary sentenced Robert Barr, 29, to eight years in prison for orchestrating an attempted cryptocurrency theft worth $2.7 million from his prison cell, according to a sentencing statement from Scotland's Judicial Office. Co-conspirators Sean Favier, 26, and Iain Doyle, 37, received four and five years respectively.

Barr planned for Favier and Doyle to enter victims' homes in Midlothian near Edinburgh and force the residents to download AnyDesk, remote-access software, enabling Barr to remotely transfer cryptocurrency from prison. The plot failed on April 17, 2024, when the couple spotted the men on their doorbell camera and refused to open the door.

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