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A sheep farmer has been found guilty of contaminating baby food with shards of metal in stores as part of a blackmail campaign against Tesco.

Nigel Wright, 45, from Market Rasen in Lincolnshire, hatched a plot to get rich by deliberately contaminating jars of Heinz baby food between May 2018 and February 2020, the Old Bailey heard.

He sent letters and emails to the supermarket giant in a bid to extort £1.4 million in bitcoin, jurors were told.

In one draft note, he wrote: "Imagine a baby’s mouth cut open and blood pouring out, or the inside of their bellies cut and bleeding. You pay, you save them."

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