A 45-year-old sheep farmer has today (October 12) been jailed for 14 years after being convicted of blackmail and contaminating specific ranges of baby food.
Nigel Wright, a father of two, was unanimously convicted by a jury following a nine-day trial at London’s Old Bailey on August 20. The court had heard how he selected jars of Heinz baby food from Tesco supermarket shelves, took them home and set about contaminating them with metal shards. He then returned a small number of the contaminated jars to stores and threatened that babies would be seriously or fatally injured unless he was paid £1.5m.
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