Eight men stormed A students dorm in Canterbury armed with knifes his bitcoin, once in his home they demanded that he reveal his crypto credentials and passwords, the student was forced to leave the campus and he moved back home.
Canterbury Christ Church University Student Loses Bitcoin in an On-Campus Armed Mugging
A recent report by the Sun, shows that a college student who started the year as a freshman was robbed at kinfepoint after recently discussing crypto currencies with a new friend from London, a school located in the historic city of Canterbury. The student’s mother details that five days before starting from his Uni.
“They were just having lads’ talk which the conversation turned to money and the new friend started talking about cyber currency,” the student’s mother explained. After the discussion, the student alleges that his ‘new friend’ brought eight friends from East London to visit the student’s room and he instantly “knew he was in trouble,” his mother declared.
The student says that his bitcoin stash was worth around £6,000 at the time he was robbed. But now that same stash of bitcoin is worth around £68K and the gang of thugs stole £3,000 worth of his school grant money too. The student then called the police and ran to the security hut. The student’s mother said the security guards didn’t go to the crime scene and he police didn’t arrived because there were more important matters to attend to that evening.
The student’s mother stated:
“The only action the university took was moving him to different accommodation. He was too traumatised so he moved back home even though he had safer and better accommodation.”
The Police Dropped the Case just 8 Months Later now the Mother Warns of London’s ‘Freshers’ Fishing Week’
The money was never recovered. The Canterbury District Police Department dropped the case after only eight months. The mother detailed that she was also upset that the local security guards and police did nothing.
“The police commonly call Freshers’ Week ‘fishing week’ because all the criminals come down,” said the mother. “They know the students have got grants, laptops, and new stuff. Attacks, assaults, and muggings are quite common across the country,” she added.
The fact of the matter is, it is not wise to disclose crypto asset holdings to others, unless you truly trust them. Bitcoin muggings have been taking place for years, but there’s been an increase in crypto robberies that leverage violence to steal bitcoin or other digital assets, since the crypto economy’s massive rise in value during the latter half of 2020.