Bitcoin raider Brit given Bali Presidential reprieve

Former soldier who robbed couple is freed from prison

- BY DAN WARBURTON and ANDREA DIXON

A BRITISH robber who took £300,000 of Bitcoin in a terrifying knifepoint raid walks free early from his hellhole Bali prison.

Disgraced former soldier Greg Simpson, 39, could be back in the UK within days after he was given a reprieve by Indonesian authorities.

The veteran, an Army reservist who toured Afghanistan as a member of the London Regiment, was jailed for kidnap and robbery in 2022.

He tied up Italians Principe Nerini, 40, and wife Camilla Guadagnuolo, and held them at knifepoint at their Seminyak villa in November 2021.

Simpson was said to have been part of a four-strong gang that stole 5.8billion Indonesian Rupiahs in the raid, the equivalent of £300,000.

Authorities swooped and arrested Simpson and his alleged right-hand man Nicola Disanto, 34, but two accomplices were never traced.