The sheep farmer who laced jars of Tesco baby food with shards of metal in £1.4m bitcoin blackmail p

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For any copyright, please send me a message.  A sheep farmer who spiked jars of baby food with shards of metal in Tesco supermarkets as part of a cryptocurrency blackmail plot has been jailed for 14 years.  Nigel Wright, 45, deliberately contaminated jars of Heinz baby food between May 2018 and February 2020.  He sent dozens of letters and emails to the supermarket giant in a bid to extort £1.4 million in bitcoin.   Two mothers – one in Rochdale and the other one Lockerbie in Scotland – were just moments away from feeding their infants the food before they spotted the potentially lethal contaminants.  Wright spiked the jars with broken-up blades of a craft knife and iron filings.  At trial, Wright denied masterminding the plot – claiming instead that he was himself being blackmailed by a group of travellers who had threatened to kill his children and rape his wife.  But he was convicted of two counts of contaminating goods and three counts of blackmail for demanding cryptocurrency from Tesco in exchange for revealing where the contaminated food had been placed by a jury at the Old Bailey in August.  He was also convicted of a further charge of blackmail for demanding £150,000 worth of bitcoin from a driver with whom he had had a road rage altercation in an anonymous letter.  At his sentencing hearing on Monday, Mr Justice Warby compared Wright’s actions to terrorism, saying: "Here, the fear that you relied on when you blackmailed Tesco was that babies would be caused serious injury by eating food contaminated with sharp pieces of metal."  He said: "You were under no pressure from others, or from circumstances.  "It is not as if you had – for instance – a legitimate grievance against Tesco, nor can any other explanation easily be identified for engaging in this series of repulsive actions, apart from greed.  "You chose to use threats of a particularly blood-curdling nature, deliberately designed to exploit the vulnerability of children, and the consequent vulnerability of a supermarket concerned for its business."  Justice Warby said Wright had been 'remorseless' and 'clearly revelling in the process'.  He jailed Wright for 11 years for the plot against Tesco, with a further three years for the anonymous letter sent to the driver, in which he threatened to execute him with a rifle and murder his wife and children.  Justice Warby described the letter as 'fit to chill the blood'.  The investigation into Wright – named Operation Hancock – became the largest blackmail investigation ever conducted in the UK.  At various points during the investigation there were more than 100 officers deployed across the country on the case working day and night shifts.  In one draft note, Wright wrote: "Imagine a baby’s mouth cut o