Baby food blackmailer faces years behind bars

A blackmailer who demanded £1.5m from Tesco after lacing baby food with razor sharp shards of metal is facing up to 14 years in jail. Two mothers found the metal fragments when they were feeding their children after sheep farmer Nigel Wright, 45, 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. Wright signed off his emails…

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