A bizarre case of intentional food contamination has been reported by the UK’s Evening Standard. The event occurred on August 25, 2021 and is currently in front of the courts.
A solicitor injected food products at Tesco, Sainsbury’s, and Waitrose with syringes filled with his own blood in a rampage that caused nearly £500,000 of damage, a court has heard.
Leoaai Elghareeb, 37, had a bucket full of syringes as he walked down a stretch of Fulham Palace Road in Fulham and entered the three supermarkets to contaminate the food products, it is said.
Isleworth Crown Court heard Elghareeb injected blood into apples and a packet of chicken tikka fillets at Waitrose, forcing staff to shut down the store as a safety precaution.
It is said he contaminated packets of meat and ready meals in the nearby Sainsbury’s Local, where he is accused of pelting staff and customers with eggs as well as assaulting a security guard.
Elghareeb, who is a qualified solicitor and the director of Opus Legal Contractors, allegedly injected more food in a Tesco Express and threw a plant pot at a waiter before he was arrested by police, it is said.
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