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Nigel Wright was caught on CCTV at Tesco in Lockerbie
A farmer has been found guilty of adding metal shards to baby food in a plot to blackmail Tesco.
Nigel Wright from Market Rasen in Lincolnshire, tried to extort £1.4m from the supermarket chain in 2018.
The Old Bailey heard how two mothers were moments away from feeding their infants when they spotted the shards.
Wright was convicted of three counts of blackmail and two charges of contaminating goods. He will be sentenced on 28 September.
The 45-year-old was convicted of a further charge of blackmail for demanding £150,000 worth of Bitcoin from a driver with whom he had a road rage altercation.
Mr Justice Warby asked for a psychiatric report to be prepared ahead of Wright's sentencing hearing saying: "(Wright) has or appears to be mentally disordered."
The judge warned Wright that he faced a lengthy custodial sentence, telling him that punishments for these types of offences range from between eight and 17 years in prison.
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