Two mothers say they were moments away from feeding their young children food laced with fragments of a craft knife blade, a court has heard
Ms Singh threw the jar away but a few days later she found more pieces of metal in a jar of cheese and tomato pasta stars, the jury heard.of Heinz baby food were recovered, although there is no evidence that any more had been tampered with.Police found photographs of the contaminated baby food on Wright's laptop at his family home, prosecutor Julian Christopher QC said.
One draft of a letter to Tesco found on the device read:"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." He had also threatened to start poisoning goods with prussic acid, otherwise known as hydrogen cyanide, the court heard.
Wright claims he was forced to get involved in the scheme by travellers who had come to his land and threatened to kill him unless he gave them £1m.
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