‘Insane’ lawyer injects his blood into food at Sainsbury’s
Dramatic footage shows an ‘insane’ solicitor injecting food with his blood in Sainsbury’s.
Leoaai Elghareeb, 37, went to three supermarkets on Fulham Palace Road carrying a bucketful of hypodermic needles to jab at products including Chicken tikka fillets.
The solicitor also threw a syringe at a doctor which bounced off her.
The three supermarkets – Sainsbury’s Local, Tesco Express and Little Waitrose had to clear the shelves of £500,000 worth of products as a precaution.
Elghareeb admits he carried out the offences but claims he is insane.
He denies three counts of contaminating goods and two counts of assault and a jury at Isleworth Crown Court was sent out earlier today to consider its verdicts by Judge Alistair Hammerton.
Elghareeb targeted Waitrose, Sainsbury’s and then Tesco during the evening of 25 August last year.
CCTV footage played in court shows Elghareeb entering Sainsbury’s wearing distinctive Nike shorts and an American football-style t-shirt.
He strides over to the ready meal section then jabs food with a syringe.
Elghareeb walks over to the next section, eyeing up the food products while holding what appears to be another syringe in his mouth before injecting a more products.
He is also accused of assaulting Dr Meghana Kulkarni by throwing a needle at her and pushing security guard Bilal Ansari in the chest while shouting: ‘You are all vile people and Sainsbury’s is vile.’
Dr Bradley Hillier, a consultant forensic psychiatrist, told the court Elghareeb was ‘severely psychotic’ at the time and could not appreciate that his actions were ‘legally and morally wrong’.
‘He was not thinking straight.
‘He was in a situation where he was trying to escape this worth that the psychosis had created for him.
‘He was so burdened and tortured, is the word he used.’
Elghareeb, of Crabtree Lane, Fulham, denies three counts of contaminating goods and two counts of assault by reason of insanity.
The jury could not agree and Elghareeb is now facing a retrial.
