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By Abbey Morton
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Farmer guilty over Tesco baby food blackmail plot

A SHEEP farmer has been found guilty of planting baby food laced with shards of metal in Lockerbie Tesco as part of a lengthy blackmail campaign against the spermarket giant.

 

Nigel Wright, 45, 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 will be sentenced on September 28 and a psychiatric report will be prepared ahead of the hearing.

Mr Justice Warby warned the defendant he faced a “lengthy custodial sentence”.

Full story in Friday’s Dumfries Courier and Annandale Observer.

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