Tesco blackmailer ‘inspired by documentary’

A farmer who demanded £1.5m from Tesco after planting baby food contaminated with shards of metal on the supermarket’s shelves said his threats were inspired by a documentary. Two mothers spotted tiny shards while feeding their infants after Nigel Wright, 45, launched his two-year campaign of threats 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 £1.5m worth of Bitcoin. Giving…