Farmer ‘blackmailed Tesco by placing metal shards in baby food’

A farmer demanded £1.5m in Bitcoin from Tesco after planting baby food contaminated with shards of metal on the supermarket’s shelves, the Old Bailey heard. Two mothers spotted sharp metal fragments while feeding their newborn children after Nigel Wright, 45, launched his blackmail campaign in the spring of 2018, jurors heard. The married father-of-two allegedly threatened to inject tins of food with salmonella and home-made chemicals unless the supermarket giant sent him money. He signed off menacing emails and letters…