‘Undercover cop paid Tesco blackmailer nearly £9,000’

A farmer received nearly £9,000 worth of bitcoin after placing baby food contaminated with metal shards on the shelves of Tesco in a two-year blackmail campaign, a court heard. Two mothers spotted sharp fragments while feeding their infants after Nigel Wright, 45, planted the jars of Heinz and Cow & Gate in branches across the UK, jurors heard. The married father-of-two allegedly threatened to poison tins of food with cyanide and salmonella unless the supermarket giant sent him £1.5m via…