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The men demanded that the couple transfer cryptocurrency, with instructions relayed by a fourth offender on a video call
The man was beaten with hammers until he transferred hundreds of thousands of pounds of cryptocurrency.
The husband was also brutally assaulted and the mother feared she was going into labour during the robbery at a home in Solihull on December 13, 2025.