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Farmer found guilty of lacing baby food with shards of metal in Scots Tesco

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farmer has been found guilty of planting baby food laced with shards of metal in stores as part of a lengthy blackmail campaign against Tesco.

Nigel Wright, 45, hatched a plot to get rich by deliberately contaminating jars of Heinz baby food between May 2018 and February 2020, the Old Bailey heard.

He sent dozens of letters and emails to the supermarket giant in a bid to extort £1.4 million in bitcoin, jurors were told. In one draft note, he wrote: "Imagine a baby's mouth cut open and blood pouring out, or the inside of their bellies cut and bleeding.

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