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A sheep farmer said jars of baby food laced with metal were in Tesco stores in a blackmail plot, a court heard.Mr Wright posed as a disgruntled dairy farmer who had been underpaid by Tesco and demanded 100 bitcoin, worth about £700,000 at the time, a jury at the Old Bailey was told.Mr Wright, 45, from Market Rasen, Lincolnshire, tried to extort the cryptocurrency between May 2018 and February this year for revealing which stores he had planted the jars in, prosecutors said.
Two customers had found slivers of metal in baby food jars as they fed their children in November and December 2019.There is no evidence any other products were actually contaminated, the court was told. In one of the counts of blackmail, Wright allegedly threatened to kill a driver with whom he had had a road rage altercation unless he paid him bitcoin worth £150,000.
wow, jack the ripper..
Someone’s been watching American Dad.
“How appropriate, you blackmail like a cow.” If anyone who sees this gets what I’m on about, I’ll be stunned.
This guy loves Monkey Island 😂😂😂
He should be NAMED and SHAMED 😡🇬🇧
Every little helps
Damn BAME criminals.
I thought Willie Thorne had passed on
An already awful story that has a chilling twist in the last paragraph. I would be very interested to know the answer and I hope it's reported on.
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