A sheep farmer has been convicted of two counts of contaminating food, after placing three jars of baby food laced with shards of metal in two Tesco stores.
Nigel Wright is facing up to 14 years in jail after being found guilty at the Old Bailey. The 45-year-old had demanded £1.5m from Tesco after lacing baby food with razor sharp shards of metal.
Two mothers found the metal fragments when they were feeding their children after Wright began his two-year campaign in the spring of 2018.
The married father-of-two threatened to inject tins of fruit with cyanide and salmonella unless the supermarket giant handed over the cash in Bitcoin.
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